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Avraham Soltes
… life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; Music, in all shapes and forms. Even as a rabbinical student … and educational activities that interpreted Jewish art, music, and literature. He was chairman of the National … to his accomplishments as a guitar-playing singer of Italian love- songs, Ladino prayer- songs, American …
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 …
Abraham Goldfaden
… his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a … folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and Italian and French opera arias. Many of the songs arranged …
Bence Szabolcsi
… Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger son … of the Hungarian Jewish weekly Egyenlőség . He studied musicology at Leipzig University, gaining a doctorate in 1923 with a thesis on the Italian monodist composers Pierro Benedetti and Claudio …
Shoshana Liessmann
… Studied Jewish Studies and Musicology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, … of Jerusalem. Topic of MA thesis: “Aspects of Jewish Musical Thought and Jewish Musicianship as a Reflection of … Intellectual Patterns of Jewish and Gentile Society in the Italian Renaissance” (Advisor: Prof. Moshe Idel).Currently …
Israel Lovy
… . In 1799, Lovy settled in Fürth were he continued his musical and secular education, becoming accomplished in … violin, cello, piano, and becoming proficient in French and Italian. Lovy served as a hazzan in Mainz , Strasbourg and …
Michele Bolaffi
… Michele Bolaffi was a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th … development of choral and instrumental music for use in the Italian synagogue. Bolaffi held international prestige: he … death of Haydn (1809) and many other short vocal pieces. … Italian musician & composer … Michele Bolaffi …
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale Cherubini in … When Casella and his colleagues founded the Società Italiana di Musica, they continued their support of the … of God, and the prophets.” In an effort on the part of the Italian government to advance racial and national propaganda …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … he performed operatic arias from a variety of schools—Italian, Russian, and German. He also performed his …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … of the oral traditions of cantors from the various Italian Jewish rites and traditions. Piattelli transcribed … the cultural, liturgical and musical heritage of the Italian Jewish communities. He transliterated the Hebrew …