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Gershon Sirota
… grandfather was a member. The board of trustees, and other music professionals in attendance, were taken aback by the … styles. Yakovkin encouraged Sirota to consider studying music formally at the Odessa Conservatory of Music. Based on … scholarship. Under Baron Kolbuss, Sirota studied music theory, vocal technique, and opera. Although Sirota excelled …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… his father Aba Pilderwasser. Weisser began his formal musical education with the local hazzan of Novata Ushitsa, … such as Eliezer Gerovich. While in Vinitsa, Weisser studied theory and harmony at the local conservatory with professor … composed many secular songs for voice and piano, incidental music, two collections of Hassidic Melodies, and a plethora …
Pavel Haas
… in his father's business until 1935, when he began teaching music theory, and later music. Haas began composing while working with his father, …
Moshe Wilensky
… Hebrew instruction alongside general studies. Wilensky's musical talent emerged at four when he began playing the … Israeli songs. Within the movement was a choir led by the musician Yitzhak Edel, who greatly influenced Wilensky's musical development, teaching him music theory. In 1928, Wilensky graduated from high school and, at …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… to a Hassidic family in Pultusk, Poland. He was exposed to music as a young child while accompanying his father on … Rabbis of Kutsk and Ger, where Abraham would hear Hassidic music. Although he was considered an Illui in Talmud, … Under Janowsky’s influence, he learned general music theory, but continued to sing in a Jewish choir. In Lodz, …
Ram Da-Oz
… and lost his eyesight. Afterward he continued to study music, including piano, oboe, theory and composition, and graduated from the Israel Academy of Music, Tel Aviv (1953). Da-Oz has written Israeli Art Music, …
Arnold Schoenberg
… Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian-born composer and music theorist. He developed the twelve-tone technique, … … Composer, teacher and theorist … 0 … Composer … Teacher … Theory … Atonal music … Expression … Serialism … Arnold Schoenberg …
Edwin Seroussi
… in Montevideo, Uruguay, Prof. Seroussi started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He immigrated to Israel in 1971 where he studied at the Department of Musicology at the undergraduate and graduate levels …
Judit Frigyesi
… Judit Niran Frigyesi is a musicologist, ethnomusicologist, teacher and poet. She received her Ph.D in History and Theory of Music from the University of Pennsylvania in …
Don Harrán
… Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research interests: word-tone relations in music and theory from the Greeks to the seventeenth century; humanism …