Israel Citkowitz

Israel Citkowitz (6 February 1909 – 4 May 1974)

Early life Israel Citkowitz was born on 6 February 1909 into a Jewish family in Skierniewice, Poland, the first of two children to Ida Frankon and Abraham Citkowitz. He was brought to the United States when he was three. Citkowitz had a sister, Rebecca.

During the 1930s, Citkowitz published music criticism in Modern Music and Musical Mercury. Among his pieces was the first English-language introduction to Schenker's ideas, The Role of Heinrich Schenker.

Discography

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But Yesterday Is Not Today (1977). New World Records — NW 243 Modern America Art Songs (Unknown). New Editions (2) — NE 2

Personal life On 15 September 1935, Citkowitz married Helen Margaret Simon in Manhattan, New York. They had two children. The couple divorced in 1948.

On 15 August 1959, Citkowitz married the English writer and heir to the Guinness beer fortune, Lady Caroline Blackwood, 22 years his junior. They had three daughters: Natalya, Eugenia, and Ivana, born after they separated. On 22 June 1978, Natalya, Citkowitz's eldest daughter with Blackwood, died at age 17 from postural asphyxia due to a drug overdose.

Death Citkowitz died on 4 May 1974 at his apartment in Westminster, London, where he had been living for the preceding five years. He was 65.