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Ephraim Skliar
… Born in Timkovichi, Belarus, and moved to Slutsk at an early age. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatory from 1890, … part in the establishment of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg. In 1912, he settled in Riga, where … and vocal arrangements, set in various genres of Jewish music such as Yiddish songs , among others. Sources: …
Simeon Bar-Isaac
… himself. His piyutim bare traces of the language found in early piyutim, and they are marked by the pain of the …
Al-Gharid Al-Yahudi
… From Encylopedia Judaica : Al-Gharid Al-Yahudi (early seventh century), poet, singer, and composer from … the fresh voice), one of the four great singers in the early Islamic era (d. 716). The biographical account of … period to the ninth century, all of which had been set to music. Al-Gharid the Jew is described in this book as a …
Charles Kensington Salaman
… Born in London, was a concert pianist from an early age. As a composer he wrote works for piano, organ, … and opera, and had a special interest in devotional music for the synagogue. He wrote 124 settings for synagogue … . … English composer and pianist … Composer … Synagogue … Music … Reform … Judaism … Charles Kensington Salaman …
Ray Musiker
… Ray is the fourth generation in a family of Klezmer musicians. As a child, Ray learned to play Klezmer dance music at Jewish weddings. His parents immigrants to America … Cohen. Book Review: Joel E. Rubin, New York Klezmer in the Early Twentieth Century in Yuval Vol. XII. … Clarinetist, …
Joseph Papernikoff
… Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the … in his youth, he approached socialist Zionism, and in the early 1920s he joined the Poalei Zion Left Party, which saw …
Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and … siècles (2 vols. Paris-La Haye, 1966). Already in this early work, Adler utilized his librarianship skills by … that revised previous paradigms in the study of music of early modern Jewish communities. In 1963, Adler returned …
Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah …
Eduard Birnbaum
… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study hazzanut with … was an avid collector of 18th and 19th century Synagogue music. He began his collection by copying the manuscripts in …
Abraham Baer
… . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … 1930) attesting to a continuous demand well into the early 1930s. The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which …