Artists

Ilia Trilling

1895 – 1947
Trilling, Ilia

Ilia Trilling was born in Elberfeld (now Wuppertal), Germany, to parents who were Yiddish actors with various touring groups. In 1910, when his parents settled for a while in Warsaw, he began formal musical studies, and during the First World War he became the director of a Yiddish theater in Kiev. Throughout the 1920s, until he emigrated to America in 1929, Trilling was involved with a number of Yiddish theatrical troupes in the Ukraine and Russia. In New York he became a dance instructor for a theater company and then took a position as choirmaster of the major Yiddish theater in the Lawndale district of Chicago, the heart of that city’s eastern European Jewish population. A few years later he was engaged as the composer-in-residence of the Hopkinson Theater in Brooklyn, and he began writing for full-length Yiddish theatrical productions, which eventually played in all the major houses.

By: Neil W. Levin


Works

Title
Volume
Duration

Du shaynst vi di zun

 Volume 13 | 1 Track
13
06:33

Mit dir in eynem

 Volume 13 | 1 Track
13
03:25

Zog, zog, zog es mir

 Volume 13 | 1 Track
13
03:51

Albums (2)

Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume 1 Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, Volume 2

Videos (4)

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