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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 …
Nikolai Kaufman
… Musicologist, folklorist and composer Nikolay (or Nikolaï) … unfailing efforts to the documentation and study of the Jewish traditions of Bulgaria. Although his publications on … the Jewish songs he collected for various mixed vocal and instrumental ensembles. As far as it can be attested, these …