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Viktor Ullmann
… Ullmann the position of chorus master and répétiteur at the German Theater in Prague. Initially Ullmann’s duties were … recruited Ullman’s help for large productions staged by the German Male Choral Society. In addition to his work at the … Two years later, Ullmann received the same prize for his opera Der Sturz des Antichrist , but after serval failed …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of the German Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name … derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” an equivalent of the German “Bruck”) was the son of Fruma bat Tzvi and Gita … a clear consciousness of his superiority—as one who operates in the actual “battlefield” of Hebrew music—in …
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 work of Georg Philipp Telemann. Full biography at Wikipedia. … German musicologist … Musicologist … Baroque … Germany … …
Samuel Naumbourg
… re-released in 1864. Though Naumbourg comes from the South German tradition, a large percentage of his arrangements mimic the style of Parisian grand opera, a genre that was a pervasive force in the cultural … Agudat Shirim, which combined pieces from the South German tradition with melodies from the Western Sephardi …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had … himself with several satirical and surrealistic operas, he became famous with playwright Bertold Brecht … works were classified as degenerate. In 1933, Weill left Germany for France, however after a short stay there he …
Gustav Mahler
… (in present-day Czech Republic) surrounded by a flourishing German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical … more prestigious institution that staged both theater and Opera. Beginning in 1882, Mahler took several temporary … an invitation to work as the Director of the Vienna Court Opera, a post that cemented his reputation as one of the …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), … that is based on folklore, and (implicitly) supporting German hegemony in music. Tal’s works, mostly atonal and … of Tal’s over 100 works are orchestral and stage works (operas, oratorios). Only a dozen of his works that he …
Michele Bolaffi
… as the musical director to the Duke of Cambridge; toured in Germany with singer Angelica Catalani; and was in the … synagogue. Bolafi also composed secular music, including an opera Saul, a Misere for three voices and orchestra (1802), …
Mikhail Gnesin
… School . After a tenure of ten years, Gnesin traveled to Germany to help found the Jibneh music publishing house … distinguished work from his “Jewish” period includes: the operas, The Youth of Abraham (1921-23) and The Maccabees …
Jacques Offenbach
… career as a cello virtuoso, traveling throughout France and Germany and performing with noted musicians and composers … acclaim, particularly in Vienna, where his romantic opera Die Rheinnixen was performed at the Hofoper Theater … his efforts were focused on finishing the score for his opera Les contes d’Hoffmann. Offenbach died in October of …