TRILLING, ILIA (1895 - 1947)
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...
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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.
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