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Hirsch Weintraub
… son of cantor-composer Solomon Weintraub , and started his musical training at an early age singing as a chorister in his father's choir in Dubno, and also receiving formal studies of music and violin. Later he left to study harmony in Vienna …
Alois Kaiser
… be the founder of American cantorate. Kaiser received his early education in the religious school of the Vienna … Realschule and the Teachers' Seminary and Conservatory of Music in Vienna. From the age of ten he sang in the choir of … him and William Sparger with the compilation of the musical portion of a Union Hymnal, published in 1897. With …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … a Writer-Musicologist,” circa 1970), Geshuri described his early childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of … Geshuri was among the leaders of Hapoel Hamizrachi who, in early 1935, opposed joining the Histadrut, Israel’s General …
Martin Ruhnke
… Martin Ruhnke was a German musicologist. His main areas of research were the music theory of early baroque music, Italian baroque opera and the life and …
Fritz Rikko
… Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of … and founded the Collegium Musicum of New York in 1951. The early music ensemble played many engagements and made … and instrumentalist who was active in Mantua in the early seventeenth century, serving under the patronage of …
Moritz Deutsch
… was born in Nikolsburg, Moravia and was identified at an early age as a prodigy in Talmudic studies. It was his … vocal talent however that brought him to Vienna to study music and the cantorial tradition. In 1842 Deutsch was … the Breslau Theological Seminary, where he taught cantorial music for over 30 years. In 1859, Deutsch helped to found …
Samuel Naumbourg
… professional hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing in Maier Kohn ’s synagogue choir. Naumbourg’s early appointments included a cantorial post in Besançon and … and was subsequently hired as a professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite. With the support of …
Leon Algazi
… Algazi was born in Iepuresti, Romania in 1890. He studied music in Vienna and Paris and graduated from the Ecole … , a position he held for many years. His interest in Jewish music and folklore was sparked by early studies with musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . One …
David Nowakowsky
… born in Malin, Russia near Kiev. Nowakowsky left home at an early age and moved to Berditchev where he was recruited as … concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this … his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught music at several local music schools, later becoming a …
Aaron Copland
… theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time in Paris, Copland traveled … his first orchestral score, the ballet Grogh. His early works such as Dance Symphony (1929) , Short …