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Israel Adler
… de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … 19th century, published a few years later as La pratique musicale savante dans quelques communautés juives en Europe … that could never be realized to its fullness but during his lifetime Adler was able to complete two substantial sections …
Israel Alter
… in his compositions. Alter composed cantorial works and musical settings to Yiddish poems. His collections of … click here . A lecture by Cantor Joseph Malovany, about the life and work of Israel Alter (including performances of …
Avner Bahat
… where he was introduced to a recorder and discovered his musical talent. Over time he developed a great skill on the recorder which would become very important in his life and more than once he was called 'Avner with the … Music (1939–1973): Integration of Traditional Elements in Musical Work. For many years, Bahat has been involved in …
Moses Beregovski
… accentuation and cantillation). Beregovski began his formal musical education at the Kiev and Leningrad conservatories … In 1917 he was recruited to catalogue and analyze the musical material from An-Ski’s second ethnographical … of the personal and professional details of Beregovski’s life from 1930-1948. The Encyclopedia Judaica (1971:600) …
Eduard Birnbaum
… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study … but decided to remain in Koenigsberg where he was offered a life contract and comfortable salary. Birnbaum was an avid … in order to document the liturgical and para-liturgical musical practices of the major European Jewish communities. …
Abraham Baer
… European cantorial circles, the reliance on a written musical text by their American progenies was certainly more sweeping. For additional information about the life of Baer, see Hammarlund, Anders. A Prayer for …
Andre Hajdu
… children's choir and orchestra (1984), the cantata Eternal Life (1984), the opera The Story of Jonah (1987), Job and … to its outstanding citizens. In the last years of his life, Hajdu relentlessly performed, and taught part-time in … of Hajdu’s projects, one of the very last of his rich life as composer, pianist and arranger. Or Haganuz , a …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… and embarked on a massive project to record their unique musical and linguistic traditions. To his end, Idelsohn was … he perceived the origin of their Hebrew pronunciation and musical heritage as dating back to the first century c.e. … foundation for the modern study of Jewish musicology. My Life: A Sketch by A.Z. Idelsohn First published in Jewish …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de Rossi, not much is known about his life. The little information that we do know has been … that Rossi enjoyed permanent office with the Gonzaga musical establishment. Rossi was employed and paid by the …
Alfred Sendrey
… born in 1884 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his formal musical education at the Academy of Music in Budapest. After … considerably. In 1952, Sendrey accepted a position as musical director of the Fairfax Synogogue (1952-56), and … work on another study, Music in the Social and Religious Life of Antiquity (1974), which was published on his …