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Jacob Gegna
Jacob M. "Jascha" Gegna or Gegner (, 1879–1944) was an American violinist, teacher, composer and recording artist. Today he is mainly remembered for his work as a teacher in New York and Los Angeles, as well as his early twentieth century 78 rpm recordings of solo klezmer violin music which are among the only of their type to have been preserved. Gegna is also one of the few historical klezmer musicians to have recorded both in Europe and in the United States. Biography Jacob Gegna was probably born in Poltava, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire (today in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) on 17 December 1879. Some sources give his birth year as 1883 or Kyiv or Bila Tserkva as a possible birthplaces. He came from a hereditary klezmer musician family; his father Chaim-Meir Gegner, Chaim Meyer Gegner was a violinist and composer from Bila Tserkva who the ethnomusicologist Moisei Beregovsky listed among the great klezmer violinists of the 19th century. His mother was called Anna Pikaskaya. Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poltava
Poltava (, ; , ) is a city located on the Vorskla, Vorskla River in Central Ukraine, Central Ukraine. It serves as the administrative center of Poltava Oblast as well as Poltava Raion within the oblast. It also hosts the administration of Poltava urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Poltava has a population of History It is still unknown when Poltava was founded, although the town was not attested before 1174. However, municipal authorities chose to celebrate the city's 1100th anniversary in 1999. The settlement is indeed an old one, as archeologists unearthed an ancient Paleolithic dwelling, as well as Scythian remains, within the city limits. Middle Ages The present name of the city is traditionally connected to the settlement Ltava, which is mentioned in the ''Hypatian Chronicle'' in 1174. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
