Arnold Perlmutter

Arnold Perlmutter (Yiddish: אַרנאָלד פּערלמוטער, 1859–1953) was a composer for Yiddish theatre, born in Zolochiv, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He moved to Lemberg where he received both a religious and a secular education in Polish, Ukrainian, and German. He sang with then-famous hazzan Borekh Shor's chorus until his voice changed, then became a klezmer, playing bass and then violin and directing and composing for the Harmonia orchestra, which in 1889 was taken into I. B. Gimpel's Yiddish theater in Lemberg; he wrote the music for the operetta Rabbi Akiva and his students. and Der Spanisher Tsigayner (The Spanish Gypsy).

In 1891 Abraham Goldfaden came to Lemberg to stage his Meshiakh tsaytn (Messiah times) and Dos tsente gebot (The Tenth Commandment); Perlmutter orchestrated and reworked Goldfaden's collected musical numbers and composed new ones for his productions. He then toured with the Treytler and Yuvelir troupes throughout Galitsia, Romania (1893-1895) and Russia (1899). From Chernovitz, Bukovina, in 1900 Professor Moyshe Horvitz (Hurwitz) took the whole troupe to America.

Perlmutter met his longtime collaborator Herman Wohl in New York's Windsor Theater and they wrote for dozens of Hurwitz's operettas as well as Di almoneh (The widow) and A mentsh zol men zayn (One should be a righteous person) by Anshel Schorr. In 1906 Perlmutter and Wohl composed the music for a romantic drama in English, The Shepherd King; in 1909, Boris Thomashefsky's Dos Pintele Yid and Di sheyne Amerikanerin; and for scores of other historical operettas of the Second Avenue Yiddish Theater District theaters through the early years of the twentieth century.

After the partnership dissolved Perlmutter worked alone, composing for Maurice Schwartz's production in 1920 of I. L. Peretz's Di goldene keyt (The golden chain). In 1922 he contracted with the Lennox Theater in the Bronx (directors Nathan Goldberg and Jacob Jacobs). He wrote the music for dozens of productions until he retired from theater in 1930.

Birth and Death Data: Born 1859, Died 1953

Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1908 - 1929

Roles Represented in DAHR: composer, songwriter, leader

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Recordings (Results 26-50 of 65 records)

Company Matrix No. Size First Recording Date Title Primary Performer Description Role Audio
Victor B-20148 10-in. 6/21/1917 Yenta gait zech regestin Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-20149 10-in. 6/21/1917 Moisha Kapoir muft Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-22049 10-in. 6/27/1918 Die Polisha chosena Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-22050 10-in. 6/27/1918 Dame rabbins nisem Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-22481 10-in. 1/20/1919 De lustika Yeddalich Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-23179 10-in. 9/30/1919 Leib, leib Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-23531 10-in. 12/15/1919 Dus zvaite vab Anna Hoffman ; Jacob Jacobs Female-male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-24296 10-in. 9/29/1920 A mame's laide Naum Coster Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-25892 10-in. 12/21/1921 Die Tfilen Morris Goldstein ; Simon Paskal Male vocal duet, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-27698 10-in. 4/3/1923 A mother you must obey Anna Hoffman Female vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Victor B-30454 10-in. 7/1/1924 Chanike licht Shloimele Rothstein Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 19244 10-in. 2/17/1911 Hot ihr nit gesehn mein Moishe Hyman Adler Tenor vocal solo, with chorus and orchestra composer  
Columbia 19795 10-in. 3/7/1912 Die neshome fin mein folk Simon Paskal Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 19796 10-in. 3/7/1912 Nehm up Zurik dein heim Simon Paskal Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 38207 10-in. 8/16/1912 Beht tates mames auf kinder Bella Nevarra Female vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 38208 10-in. 8/16/1912 Dus lebedige yisoimele Bella Nevarra Female vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 38509 10-in. 12/19/1912 Oy, vi sheyn (אה וויא שעהן) Arnold Perlmutter’s Orchestra Orchestra composer, leader  
Columbia 39233 10-in. 2/11/1914 Dem pastechel's cholem Meyer Kanewsky Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 39411 10-in. 5/25/1914 Dos pintele Yid (דאס פּינטעלע יוד) Bennie Zeidman Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 39414 10-in. 5/25/1914 In honig land Sam Silverbush Male vocal solo, with orchestra composer  
Columbia 36506 12-in. 12/19/1912 Die Jidishe kroin Kalman Juvelier Male vocal solo composer  
Columbia 36507 12-in. 12/19/1912 Das shaifele Kalman Juvelier Male vocal solo composer  
Columbia 36508 12-in. 12/19/1912 Dos lebedige yesoimele Kalman Juvelier Male vocal solo composer  
Columbia 36509 12-in. 12/19/1912 Shuldig bist du Yidele alein Kalman Juvelier Male vocal solo composer  
Columbia 43642 10-in. either 1915 or 1916 Die nevial (נבואָה) Josef Rosenblatt Tenor vocal solo, with piano composer  
(Results 26-50 of 65 records)

Citation

Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Perlmutter, Arnold," accessed March 28, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/107299.

Perlmutter, Arnold. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/107299.

"Perlmutter, Arnold." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 28 March 2024.

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