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Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
… Kwartin was born in Novo-arkhangelsk , Ukraine, and was first … his involvement in the choir of a local synagogue. Kwartin went on to study hazzanut formally in Vienna , where … his first official cantorial post. In his early career, Kwartin also served several communities in St. Petersburg, …
Marc Lavry
… of the Riga Opera. In response to the rise of the Nazi party and the induction of the Nuremburg Laws, Lavry … broadcasts. Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and … the emerging Mediterranean style of early Israeli folk and art musicians, was his symphonic poem Emek (1937). This …
Gustav Mahler
… Mahler’s musical beginnings in Vienna set him in an artistic environment heavily influenced by the music of … result of a severe blood infection caused by a chronic heart ailment. He left behind three major posthumous works, …
Pinhas Minkowski
… musical society, under whose auspices he published several articles on the topics of Jewish music and hazzanut. The …
Arno Nadel
… in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard Birnbaum , first as a participant in his all boy-choir, and then as a private … with a neighbor for safe keeping, which was returned in part to his estate after the war. Eric Mandel purchased what … the library from Nadel’s widow and it is now preserved as part of the Eric Mandel Collection at the Schreiber Jewish …
Nahum Nardi
… to Palestine, their relationship became strained, owing partly to a professional dispute. The dispute, according to … with singers of different origin, such as Sarah Ye'ari and Marta Schlamme , producing somewhat different results. As a … performed at Habimah Theater in 1947. In the medium of art music, Nardi composed several piano pieces, such as: …
Sholom Secunda
… In November 1907 Mr. Wolf, a manager of cantors and concert artists in New York, offered to help pay for the Secunda … to charge $100 for a Shabbat service. Sholom got his start in Yiddish theater shortly after arriving to New York … Cooper Union, he applied and was accepted to the Music Department at Columbia College. Sholom was ultimately unhappy …
Mordekhai Seter
… by the 1940's. Unlike the other Founding Fathers of Israeli art music, he spent six years of his adolescence in Eretz … 1940-1968, share characteristics with his friends Oedoen Partos and Alexander Boskovich . Many are based on tunes or … ballets commissioned for the company of the legendary Martha Graham, such as The Legend of Judith (1964) and …
Mattityahu Shelem
Born in Zamoscz, Poland. Immigrated to Palestine in 1922, settled in Kibbutz Bet-Alfa…
Wolf Shestapol
… works. His works were strongly influenced by European art music to which he was exposed to while singing with …