caption death_date death_place years_active birth_place background birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
joel engel 11 february 1927 tel aviv , palestine 1900 - 1927 berdyansk , russian empire non_performing_personnel 28 april -lsb- o.s. 16 april -rsb- 1868 jewish art music joel engel.jpg joel engel -lrb- composer -rrb-
 joel engel composer of the jewish art music movement , critic , teacher , impresario . founder
joel engel -lrb- composer -rrb-

joel -lrb- or yoel -rrb- engel -lrb- , 1868 -- 1927 -rrb- was a music critic , composer and one of the leading figures in the jewish art music movement .
born in russia , and later moving to berlin and then to palestine , engel has been called `` the true founding father of the modern renaissance of jewish music . ''
as a composer , teacher , and organizer , engel inspired a generation of jewish classical musicians to rediscover their ethnic roots and create a new style of nationalist jewish music , modelled after the national music movements of russia , slovakia , hungary and elsewhere in europe .
this style - developed by composers alexander krein , lazare saminsky , mikhail gnesin , samuel rosowsky , and others - was an important influence on the music of many twentieth-century composers , as well as on the folk music of israel .
his work in preserving the musical tradition of the shtetl - the 19th-century jewish village of eastern europe - made possible the revival of klezmer music today .
