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Political and economic conditions forced the closure of the St Petersburg branch of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1922, though it survived until 1929 in Russia as a whole. The final St Petersburg concert featured Achron’s Lieder, Op 52, the second of which, a setting of the Hebrew poet Avraham Ben-Yitzhak, was later arranged for violin as the buoyantly lyrical Canzonetta, published in 1923 by Jibneh, the Jewish music publishing house in Berlin which Achron took over with Mikhail Gnesin.

from notes by Malcolm Miller © 2012