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Moshe Koussevitsky
… outbreak of World War II, Koussevitsky escaped to Russia , where he continued to tour as an Opera soloist in Moscow , … In 1947, Koussevitsky emigrated to the United States , where he received a post at Temple Beth El in Brooklyn , NY . …
Alexander A. Krein
… his formal musical education at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied cello and composition. Shortly after … his degree, Krein was appointed a professor of music there, and he became a prominent figure in the school of …
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
… Kwartin went on to study hazzanut formally in Vienna , where he later received his first official cantorial post. In … to the United States , settling in Borough Park , Brooklyn where he served as the head cantor at Temple Emanuel . It was … accept a position in Newark , New Jersey, remaining there until his death in 1953. Kwartin’s improvisations on …
Myer Leoni
… 1787, Leoni left the Great Synagogue and moved to Jamaica where he was hired as the ba’al koreh by the Ashkenazi …
Israel Lovy
… his formal Jewish education at a Yeshiva in Glogau, where his father officiated as a hazzan. From a young age, …
Gustav Mahler
… began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius Epstein, and …
Pinhas Minkowski
… Pinhas Minkokwski was born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, where his father officiated as a cantor. Minkowski studied …
Arno Nadel
… Teacher’s Institute in Berlin, and upon graduation settled there as an educator and choirmaster for the Kottbuser Ufer … researchers. In 1943, Nadel was deported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. He managed to hide his entire library … Encyclopedia Judaica. A full biography can be found here on the 'Music and the Holocaust' website. … German …
Nahum Nardi
… age seven, further pursuing them at the Kiev Conservatory, where he graduated with honors in 1919. Subsequently, he … In 1931 they performed in Egypt, in Alexandria and Cairo, where they would perform again five years later. In 1936 they … music, for which he received ambivalent criticism. From thereafter he turned to tutoring and accompanying other …
Sholom Secunda
… the Institute of Musical Art (today the Julliard School), where he began full-time study in 1914. Sholom's first … but they all agreed that the sound was “too Jewish” and therefore not fit for Hollywood audiences. Sholom returned to …