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Esther R. Warkov
… seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on … received a Fulbright for her MA research, Twentieth Century Musical Composition in Wales and its Relationship with Traditional Welsh Music submitted to the University of Wales …
Daniel Meir Weil
… In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew … extensive memoire on the Noble Tone system of the Masoretic tradition, including some probing through cognitive … make accessible to a wider public the fruits of his archaeo-musical and halakhic research in that domain. See: " שיחזור …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music traditions. He was also a public figure, being a significant … childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of extreme musical isolation and alienation. Hendel-Malka, Geshuri’s …
Samuel Naumbourg
… professional hazzanim in his family. He received his formal musical education in Munich where he was recruited to sing … in 1864. Though Naumbourg comes from the South German tradition, a large percentage of his arrangements mimic the … an unprecedented overview of the history of religious Jewish music. Another of Naumbourg’s important contributions …
David Nowakowsky
… learned harmony and counterpoint and studied the cantorial tradition from noted cantors Yeruham Hokoton and hazzan … such, David Nowakowsky was part of an influential circle of Jewish intellectuals including Saul Tchernikovsky, Chaim … poem Tikvateinu for the Fifth Zionist Conference. His musical arrangment of the poem was later replaced by a …
Darius Milhaud
… most influential composers of the 20th century. Born to a Jewish family in Marseilles and raised in Aix-en-Provence , … group known as Les Six . He drew inspiration from diverse musical traditions, incorporating jazz, Brazilian rhythms, and …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … Krein, and Moses Michail Milner, he founded the Society for Jewish Folk Music . Achron's association with these … musical language. During his childhood, Achron absorbed the traditions of 19th century virtuoso violin music, whereas …
Samuel Alman
… Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a … quickly, and he was hired to lead several other local Jewish choirs in London . Alman was deeply influenced by the Eastern European cantorial tradition, specifically by the work of hazzanim Nisson …
Alexander A. Krein
… Moscow in 1883. He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a … Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 he began his formal musical education at the Moscow Conservatory, where he … national style. Krein found inspiration in the musical traditions of the synagogue. He utilized melodic …
Pinhas Minkowski
… officiated as a cantor. Minkowski studied the cantorial tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan … intellectual movement in Odessa. He lectured at the Jewish Conservatory and was the chairman of the Ha-Zamir …