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Israel Alter
… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and … in 1961 and joined the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of … in his compositions. Alter composed cantorial works and musical settings to Yiddish poems. His collections of …
Frank Alvarez-Pereyre
… the Mishna: study of oral performances from linguistic and musical points of view; Jewish interlinguistics: the French … the Jews in Germany, Austria, and Romania; the liturgical music traditions of Ethiopian Jews … Linguist … Frank …
Hanoch Avenary
… began teaching at Tel-Aviv University's Department of Musicology and was a member of the Jewish Music Research Centere. He published many books and articles that deal with the history of Jewish music from the Middle Ages until the 19 th century, and was …
Bathja [Batya] Bayer
… Germany. Taken to Palestine in 1936. Received a PhD in Musicology at the University of Zurich, and later a earned a … from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Directed the music department in the National Library (1964-1974). Was a lecturer in the Musicology department of the Hebrew University, researcher …
Avner Bahat
… where he was introduced to a recorder and discovered his musical talent. Over time he developed a great skill on the … kibbutz, he traveled one day a week to Tel Aviv to study music: piano, oboe, harmony, and later on, a one-week course … that Naomi and Avner would be sent to to study to become music teachers. Upon graduation, he began teaching music at …
Moses Beregovski
… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah … accentuation and cantillation). Beregovski began his formal musical education at the Kiev and Leningrad conservatories …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s … melodies). He continued his involvement in Jewish choral music, forming the Hadassah Choral Union in 1916 and the music department at the 92nd Street YMCA in 1917. In 1921 he …
Eduard Birnbaum
… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study … was an avid collector of 18th and 19th century Synagogue music. He began his collection by copying the manuscripts in … out and recorded biographical information about important musicians, composers and hazzanim. He also interviewed …
Abraham Baer
… . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which … School; see N. Levin 1997); and the School of Sacred Music of Hebrew Union College. A testimony to the canonical …
Yehezkiel Braun
… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … composer, with over 120 works published by the Israel Music Institute. His feeling for modality in harmony and … folklorism à la Bartók) in the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music (1947-53), and later at the St. Pierre de Solesmes …