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Isadore Freed
… Freed headed the Composition Department at the Julius Harrt Musical Foundation in Hartford , Connecticut . Two years …
Frederick Piket
… Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe. He was a successful secular …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … early years of the war and of ghetto life, and new forms of musical and theatrical expression were adapted to the harsh …
Julius Chajes
… music. In the wake of this research and due to the local musical influences he was exposed to, Chajes transformed his …
Lazare Saminsky
… cantillations, prayer chants, melodies, and other sacred musical traditions of the Georgian and Persian Jews in … in the U.S. He settled in New York in 1924, and became the musical director of the reform congregation of Temple …
Gideon Klein
… in 1944, Klein remained one of the core figures in the musical life of the ghetto. Although basic resources such as … Klein immediately recognized the potential to continue musical activity despite the hardships of imprisonment and … ). With the establishment of the Freizeitgestaltung , all musical activities were sponsored, albeit closely …
Hans Krása
… 10, 1942 and quickly became one of the key figures in the musical life of the camp. Krása’s most important musical contribution by far was his children’s opera … around the world. … Composer & important figure in the musical life of Theresienstadt (Terezín) … Composer … …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague … the lack of resources (i.e. instruments and scores), early musical activity took the form of communal singing in the … cabarets staged by Schächter and Švenk. With the influx of musical prisoners to Terezín, Schächter's choral activities …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… This discovery sparked Schul's interest in Jewish musical themes, which he began to incorporate into his … the Holocaust' website. … Jewish German composer, active musically in Theresienstadt … Composer … Jewish … Themes … …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a handful of piano … at the Dead Sea factories, and on the weekends he copied musical notes for Prof. Rosowsky , in exchange for piano …