Ahasver
By James Simon
Details
Tone poem for orchestra and solo cello
First performance
Nov 17, 1934 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with Marix Loevensohn, cello.
About James Simon
(09/29/1880 - ?)
James Simon was a highly intelligent and accomplished pianist, composer and musicologist. He studied philosophy, loved poetry and felt at home with the great German musical tradition. Music was his life. So much so, that his son would call him ‘other worldly’. He continued to compose until the very end.
By Phillip Silver and Carine Alders