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About Mordecai Sandberg
- Mordecai (Markus) Sandberg (Hebrew: ????? ???????) (February 4, 1897 – December 28, 1973) was a composer and physician.
- He was a creative and prolific composer, a musical theorist, and an innovative physician in the area of alternative and natural medicine in 1920s and 1930s Jerusalem. Sandberg was a pioneer in the field of microtonal theory and music.
- He believed that a microtonal system of music could be the basis of making “a music of humanity” that would bring people together from all cultures and transcend local traditions.
- He argued that although there seemed to be a conflict between the western and eastern tonal systems, there was in reality one music and one humanity.
- He developed his Universal Tonal System, a synthesis of oriental and occidental scales using microtones.
- He also designed several instruments and a notation system for microtonal music. As a composer of microtonal music Sandberg intended to translate and interpret the sacred texts of all the worlds’ religions to musical form.
- He began his monumental project with the Hebrew Bible, from his own European Jewish tradition.
- He theorized that microtonal music, incorporating the tonal traditions of Asia, was an appropriate means for setting Hebrew, an Oriental language, to music.
- Over the course of his life, Sandberg produced some twenty thousand pages of musical composition.
- His magnum opus was Symphonic Psalms, the setting of the Book of Psalms to music, a task which comprised more than twelve thousand pages of composition.
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