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Ephraim Skliar
… 1903, he took part in the establishment of the Society for Jewish Folk Music in St. Petersburg. In 1912, he settled in Riga, where … works and vocal arrangements, set in various genres of Jewish music such as Yiddish songs , among others. Sources: …
Max Spicker
… worked for the publisher G. Schirmer, where he edited many musical anthologies. Spicker has written music for the synagogue, as well as choral and orchestral … works. Sources: Nulman, Macy. Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Conductor, composer and teacher … Composers …
Simeon Bar-Isaac
Born in Mainz, Germany. An important scholar of his time. As a paytan he composed…
Mordechai Sobol
… the establishment of the Yuval Ensemble for cantorate and Jewish music, where he served as musical director and conductor. Sources: Encyclopedia …
Alexander Tansman
… Born in Lodz, Poland, studied music in his hometown and in Warsaw. Moved to Paris in 1921, … the US, but returned to Paris in 1946. Tansman incorporated Jewish elements into his works and was influenced by the … composer … composer … Poland … Polish … Composers … Art … Music … Neoclassicism … Guitar … Alexander Tansman …
Max Weinreich
… Max Weinreich was a Russian Jewish linguist, specializing in sociolinguistics …
Al-Gharid Al-Yahudi
… period to the ninth century, all of which had been set to music. Al-Gharid the Jew is described in this book as a Kohen descended from Aaron ben Amram and a member of the Jewish group living in Yathrib (i.e. Medina, the city of the … Muhammed). Al-Isfahani mentions in the same context other Jewish poets belonging to the same group, but the very fact …
Jacob Koppel Sandler
… choral director for several cantors. He composed several Jewish themed operettas, one of them featuring the famous … a folk song. Source: Encyclopedia Judaica . … Composer and music director … Choirs, Choral music … Composers … Yiddish … Theater … Choral … Director … …
Yitzhak Sadai
… in 1949. He studied composition at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music under Uriah Uri Boscovich , and also studied with … Tal . Later he worked as a lecturer at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem (from 1960) and the Tel Aviv Academy of … music, and choral and vocal works, some of them with Jewish themes, such as the cantata, Hazvi Yisrael . …
Charles Kensington Salaman
… and opera, and had a special interest in devotional music for the synagogue. He wrote 124 settings for synagogue … of Reform Judaism. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica , Jewish Encyclopedia . … English composer and pianist … Composers … Composer … Synagogue … Music … Reform … Judaism … Charles Kensington Salaman …