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Baal Shem

The Baal Shem is a work written by Ernest Bloch in Cleveland , for violin and piano in 1923 , secondarily transcribed for violin and orchestra in 1939. It is subtitled "Three pictures of Chassidic life."

The work's title refers to Baal Shem Tov , the founder of Hasidic.

Bloch has written several scores for violin and orchestra, including his Violin Concerto and the Suite Hebrew, his three works are also inspired Hebrew. It is dedicated to his mother, even if it was originally written for the violinist Andre Ribaupierre .

The work has three movements and its implementation requires about a quarter of an hour.