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Paul Ben-Haim
… The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps , Marc Lavry ), he wrote over 250 … had written since adolescence, and Hakhnisini , featuring Ashkenazi tints. His 1940 Symphony No. 1 was the first … musicologist). Among Ben-Haim’s other notable works are his Liturgical Cantata (1949), Sonata (piano, 1954), his …
Marcus Hast
… the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the … : Hast claims to have published the first volume of Ashkenazi Synagogue music in England (the very first of all, … … Cantor and composer … Cantorate … Synagogue music … Liturgical works … Liturgy … Jewish Liturgy … English … …
Israel Alter
… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and … - Hazzanim … German Synagogue … Tenor … Yiddish songs … Ashkenazi liturgical music … American cantors … Composer … Israel Alter …
Moses Beregovski
… was born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher … E. Edelshat and others. … Collector & researcher of Ashkenazi music in Eastern Europe … Moses Beregovski …
Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … Jerusalem. Over the years, Mordechai Breuer composed many liturgical and para-liturgical works for a variety of … (Am Main) … German Synagogue … Synagogue music … Western Ashkenazi … Mordechai Breuer …
Judit Frigyesi
… Judit Niran Frigyesi is a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and poet. She … cultures (with expertise in the music of Béla Bartók and Ashkenazic prayer chant). Her archive is the largest … recorded in East Europe and the largest archive of the liturgical music of the Hungarian Jews. She is active as a …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … as a five-volume, twenty-book treatise on Eastern European Ashkenazic liturgical music, repertoire, and varying traditions. Three …

Eric Werner
… Born in Ludenberg (near Vienna ). Studied music and religion in several cities in Europe, receiving … as comparative Jewish-Christian music, Jewish composers, Ashkenazi liturgy, and more. His compositions include mainly Jewish liturgical works, in addition to choral compositions, songs, …
Geoffrey Goldberg
… Ph.D., Department of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation: … (2001). Research interests: Historical development of Ashkenazi Liturgical Music; the influence of minhag in the development …
Amalia Kedem
… Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at … research on contemporary practices of cantillation (MA) and liturgical music (PhD) and the ways in which they express Israeli and Ashkenazi identity. She taught Jewish music at the Academy …