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Moshe Koussevitsky
… in hazzanut. Koussevitsky was identified early on as a musical protégé and at the age of eight joined a synagogue … the Ramailes Yeshiva to supplement his Jewish and secular education. He received his first cantorial post at the Great …
Alexander A. Krein
… other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 he began his formal musical education at the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied cello …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories under … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and …
Israel Lovy
… a town near Danzig in 1773. He received his formal Jewish education at a Yeshiva in Glogau, where his father … . In 1799, Lovy settled in Fürth were he continued his musical and secular education, becoming accomplished in violin, cello, piano, …
Gustav Mahler
… German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius …
Pinhas Minkowski
… tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan Spivak . … Jewish Conservatory and was the chairman of the Ha-Zamir musical society, under whose auspices he published several …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard Birnbaum … became increasingly interested in the collection of Jewish music, and in 1923 was commissioned by the Jewish community …
Sholom Secunda
… and C. Once in New York, Mr. Wolf began to manage Sholom's musical career, setting up engagements in a number of … career came to a venerable halt. However, he continued his musical and general education at Eron Prep School, and began taking private …
Mordekhai Seter
… occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … as a 10-year old child, and at 16 he went to further his musical education in Europe (Paris, 1932-1937, studying with Nadia …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… about 100 of his pieces have been published by the Israel Music Institute. He was the most distinctive among the first … of folklorism and orientalism. This may have reflected his education in Berlin in the late 1920's, where he was … of Schoenberg’s in Style and Idea : against nationalism in music that is based on folklore, and (implicitly) supporting …