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Israel Adler
… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn … revised previous paradigms in the study of music of early modern Jewish communities. In 1963, Adler returned to …
Abraham Baer
… . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … and Samuel Naumbourg , covering the liturgy of the entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor … the life of Baer, see Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for Modernity: Politics and Culture in the World of Abraham Baer …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied … Western compositional techniques. His works fuse Oriental Jewish melisma and modern techniques. In 1994 he participated in the …
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 … instrumental works in which he followed the romantic and modern European tradition of “pure” music. Examples of this …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … (which number over 1,000) laid the foundation for the modern study of Jewish musicology. My Life: A Sketch by A.Z. …
Salomon Sulzer
… and imitated cantor of his time, appreciated beyond the Jewish community. As a composer and musician, Sulzer is considered by some as the father of modern cantorate. This is a result of his attempt to reform …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Indiana University. Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi … songs as well as arrangements of 'Palestinian' (i.e. modern Hebrew) songs. As an author he published The Music of … collection is located at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and can accessed …
Amnon Shiloah
… Born in Lanus, Argentina in 1928 to a family of Jewish immigrants from Syria, Shiloah returned with his … of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … uncover an intellectual universe that is well beyond the modern Western concept of “music theory.” These treatises, …
Geoffrey Goldberg
… Ph.D., Department of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dissertation: … website ) See: Goldberg, Geoffrey. Between Tradition and Modernity: The High Holy Days Melodies of Minhag Ashkenaz . Yuval Music Series, vol. 12. Jerusalem: Jewish Music Research Centre - Hebrew University of …
Boaz Tarsi
… by institutions and performers such as the New York Chamber Music Society, the Israeli Sinfonietta, NYC 92nd street … Karr, the Jerusalem Theater, Tel Aviv Museum, the American Jewish Music Society, the Jewish Museum in Philadelphia, San … Among his scholarly publications are contributions to “Modern Judaism,” “Asian Music,” “Indiana Theory Review,” …