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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale Cherubini in Florence , with a focus of piano performance. He received a degree in composition from the Liceo Musicale of Bologna in 1918, …
Sasha Argov
… mother, who was a music teacher. Although Argov dabbled in composition as a young boy, he never studied music or … on Sundays) (film score), Esther hamalka (Queen Esther) (a musical), Shlomo hamelech veShalmai hasandlar (King Solomon and the Cobbler) (a musical), Hu halach basadot (He Walked through the Fields) …
Frederick Piket
… Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe. He was a successful secular … for several decades before turning to synagogue music composition. Piket spent his childhood and early career in … States in 1940, at the age of 37. His interest in synagogue composition began after taking a position as an organist and …
Karel Reiner
… law and musicology at the Charles University in Prague, and composition at the Master School under Josef Suk and Alois … for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical activities. Reiner’s compositional output during … Esta gramophone company. Reiner was a leading figure in the musical life of Terezín. He was primarily involved in …
Elio Piattelli
… rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for holidays and festivals. Graduated cum laude … from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is a first attempt to locate, catalog and analyze his musical compositions and other of his scholarly interests …
Joseph Schillinger
… Joseph Schillinger was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition. He was born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a … the New York College of Music, studying piano, harmony and composition. That same year, he published his first song, … in London, where he began writing songs for British musical hall productions. Returning to New York in 1905, …
Ram Da-Oz
… continued to study music, including piano, oboe, theory and composition, and graduated from the Israel Academy of Music, … Israeli folksongs. He plays an important role in the musical life of Haifa , where he still lives today. Sources: …
Yinam Leef
… new coexist. He studied piano and violin and his childhood musical influences include classical music, jazz, and the … and the Old City's church bells. His first published composition, Gilgulim for woodwind trio, was a set of … on an artistic direction that combines local and universal musical elements. In 1979, after completing his studies at …
Betty Olivero
… her career in Florence, Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. … form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk material appears in rich, nuanced … tunes and medieval music integrated into a contemporary musical language. Olivero's compositions have been performed …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… as well as instrumental; he published a booklet about the musical potential of the Hebrew language. Orgad’s use of … generation composers in the Land of Israel : contexts of composition, ideological factors and stylistics …
Israel Alter
… music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and composition, including Cantor Yehuda Leib Miller . At the … both emotional and intellectual elements in his compositions. Alter composed cantorial works and musical settings to Yiddish poems. His collections of …


