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Gustav Mahler
… German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius … and in 1883 he was appointed the Royal Musical and Choral Director of Kassel , a position he held for two …
Pinhas Minkowski
… tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan Spivak . Minkowski took over Spivak’s post at the Choral Synagogue in Kishnev at the young age of eighteen. He … Jewish Conservatory and was the chairman of the Ha-Zamir musical society, under whose auspices he published several …
Nissan Blumenthal
… the first Chor-Schul in Odessa where he developed choral singing for four voices. Influenced by his study of German classical music, he adapted melodies from the composers, Handel, … deep knowledge of classical harmony, counterpoint, and choral arrangement helped to propel the use of choir music …
Michele Bolaffi
… Michele Bolaffi was a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be considered a turning point in the development of choral and instrumental music for use in the Italian …
Isaac Schlossberg
… (also known as Leibke Aluxter) were cantors. He studied music and the basics of hazzanut in Vilna under the … for the first time conducted the Grand Choir of the Vilna Choral Synagogue. Later he entered the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1899, together with Leo Liov, he wrote music for a play based on Joseph Lateiner's play ' Khurban …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … early years of the war and of ghetto life, and new forms of musical and theatrical expression were adapted to the harsh … years of the war, the ghetto's Symphony Orchestra, the Lodz Choral Society Hazamir and the Revue Theater gave regular …
Max Helfman
… Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music … Source: " Max Helfman " in Wikipedia. … Composer, choral conductor & educator … Yiddish songs … Communism … …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague … singing in the barracks. By 1942, Schächter's organized choral activities began to take shape. In collaboration with … the influx of musical prisoners to Terezín, Schächter's choral activities grew in scope and in quality. The arrival …
Pavel Haas
… in his father's business until 1935, when he began teaching music theory, and later music. Haas began composing while … on Chinese Poetry (1944). His list of compositions includes choral and vocal works, incidental music, orchestral and … music of Janacek, Moravian folksong, Jewish chant, Medieval Chorale, Western European contemporary music, and Jazz. [2] …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is a first attempt to locate, catalog and analyze his musical compositions and other of his scholarly interests … … Composer, Choral Conductor and Collector of Jewish Chants … Italian … …