16 Facts About Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch was a preeminent artist in his day, and left a lasting legacy.

Ernest Bloch is recognized as one of the greatest Swiss composers in history.

Ernest Bloch studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye.

Ernest Bloch held several teaching appointments in the US, where his pupils included George Antheil, Frederick Jacobi, Quincy Porter, Bernard Rogers, and Roger Sessions.

In 1917, Ernest Bloch became the first teacher of composition at Mannes School of Music, a post he held for three years.

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In 1925 Ernest Bloch resigned from the Cleveland Institute, where he had not been happy, and relocated to San Francisco.

Ernest Bloch was named the director of the Conservatory and remained in that position until 1930, when the school was running low on funds.

Ernest Bloch returned to Switzerland, where he composed his "Avodath Hakodesh" before returning to the US in 1939.

Ernest Bloch joined the music faculty at Berkeley in 1941 and taught there one semester each year until his retirement in 1952.

Ernest Bloch composed "In Memoriam" that year after the death of Ada Clement.

Ernest Bloch's body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific ocean near his home in Agate Beach.

Ernest Bloch's compositions are often described as reflecting his Jewish heritage, yet had many other sources.

Ernest Bloch studied variously with Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Iwan Knorr and Ludwig Thuille, as well as corresponding with Gustav Mahler and meeting Claude Debussy.

Bloch's father had at one stage intended to become a rabbi, and the young Ernest had a strong religious upbringing; as an adult he felt that to write music that expressed his Jewish identity was "the only way in which I can produce music of vitality and significance".

Suzanne Ernest Bloch, born in 1907, was a musician particularly interested in Renaissance music who taught harpsichord, lute and composition at the Juilliard School in New York.

Lucienne Ernest Bloch, born in 1909, worked as Diego Rivera's chief photographer on the Rockefeller Center mural project, became friends with Rivera's wife, the artist Frida Kahlo, and took some key photos of Kahlo and the only photographs of Rivera's mural .