Sheet Music

A Pastekhl (Goldfadn) — אַ פּאַסטעכל (גאָלדפֿאַדן)

Author:
Goldfaden, Avrom — גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם
Composer:
Goldfaden, Avrom — גאָלדפֿאַדען, אַבֿרהם
Genre:
Theatre/Allegory
Subject:
Shepherd/Slave/Place/Canaan/Moses/Commandments/
Origin:
ML MTAG 130
Transliteration:
ML MTAG 130/Alb B-031(a)/Ephemera 1636
Translation:
Ephemera 1636
Music:
ML MTAG 131
Additional song notes:
A Shepherd From the operetta "Bar Kokhba oder Di Zun Fun Dem Shtern"
Folder:
177
Series:
4
Arranger:
Russotto, Henry A.
Arranged for:
Piano
Texts:
Yiddish
Publisher:
Hebrew Publishing Co
Publisher address:
50-52 Eldridge Street, New York
Date:
1909
Provenance:
Gift of Robert & Molly Freedman, 1996
First line:
A pastekhl iz geven amol in dem land knan!
First line (Yiddish):
א פּאַסטעכל איז געווען אַמאָל אין דעם לאַנד כּנען!
Notes:
Cover: Red background "Complete Opera, Bar Kochba" in large black letters (English & Yiddish) with center photo of A. Goldfaden. Price $2.00. Twenty songs listed on fron cover. Texts of eight songs printed on inside cover and back cover. Songs in this edition "...all appeared in the 'complete opera edition' first published in 1898 by Katzenelenbogen and Rabinowitz, and then reissued in 1909 by the Hebrew Publishing Co." (See Gold Heskes p. 11)