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Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … the first Nazi death camp of the “final solution of the Jewish question.” Their holy remains were buried in the … songs, film and video scores, signature tunes, and instrumental work include the international mega hit 'Tzena …
Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi
… Court musician. Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi was court musician for the Umayyad Caliph Al-Hakam I in Cordoba, Spain … source from the 17th century suggests that he was instrumental in bringing the famous musician Ziryab to …
Marcus Hast
… the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the Polish Jewish composer Micha l (Michel) Bergson (1820-1898) , … Encyclopaedia of Jewish Music, he has credits for instrumental works and an oratorio, though I doubt any of …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … listeners among Mizrahi communities (nearing 50% of the Jewish population), many leading composers listened to and … songs with both Hebrew and Arabic texts as well as large instrumental and vocal works in Oriental styles. He had …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … in 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew … many liturgical works, in addition to other vocal and instrumental compositions. Ephros is mostly known for his …
Walter Zev Feldman
… Columbia University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … the Ottoman Court: Makam,Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire was published in Berlin in 1996, and …
Don Harrán
… Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research … century; humanism and music; the Italian madrigal; instrumental music of the early Baroque; Jews as composers, … theorists in fifteenth- to seventeenth-century Italy; early Jewish women as poets and singers; the beginnings of Hebrew …
Andre Hajdu
… 5 March 1932 to a characteristically assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject … after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … output orbited around Jewish themes. He composed many instrumental works in which he followed the romantic and …
Eric Werner
… Born in Ludenberg (near Vienna ). Studied music and religion in several cities in Europe, receiving … (1934-1938). Immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. Began teaching Jewish music and liturgy at the Hebrew Union College in … works, in addition to choral compositions, songs, and instrumental works. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica ; Concise …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known … for his performances at court events and for his vocal and instrumental compositions. Although it seems that Rossi was …