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Mordekhai Seter
… , he turned to introverted, enigmatic, and exceptionally coherent chamber music in the 1970's and mostly piano music in …
Yehuda Sharett (Shertok)
… to Israel in 1906. Was a member of Kibbutz Yagur where he composed the Yagur Passover Seder Service (for …
Gershon Sirota
… Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village cantor. As a boy, … at the local Bet Hamedrash (small house of prayer), where his grandfather was a member. The board of trustees, … choir. Consequently, Gershon’s parents moved to Odessa , where his father began working as a hazzan at one of the …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… have reflected his education in Berlin in the late 1920's, where he was immensely influenced by the Second Viennese … in his colorful, thought-provoking autobiography and elsewhere, his ideas are similar to those of Schoenberg ’s in … department of the Hebrew University (1965-1970), where he taught between 1951 and 1981. Although he did use …
Jacob Weinberg
… For full biography, click here … Composer & pianist … 0 … Composer … Pianist … Jacob …
Nissan Blumenthal
… position he held until his death in 1903. During his time there, he established the first Chor-Schul in Odessa where he developed choral singing for four voices. Influenced …
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… and his family settled in Los Angeles , where he landed a contract with MGM as a film composer. He … of film music at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music, where he taught noted composers Goldsmith, Mancini, Previn, …
Mikhail Gnesin
… and studying throughout Europe , Gnesin returned to Rostov where he was hired as a composition teacher at the State … to 1944, he also taught at the Leningrad Conservatory, where he later headed the composition department. Gnesin’s …
Mordekhai Hershman
… the Volyn Governorate; no town of that name was identified there) in Zaludkowski (1930: 274); Cherinov in Smith’s notes … in the Chor-Shul of Zhitomir in 1913. However, he stayed there only a few months before he was offered the important … who took him to Solovio [unidentified location], where he continued his studies under Chazan Dorfman …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… and teacher at the Orthodox Synagogue in Frankfurt , where he remained until his death in 1892. Japhet composed a …