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Hugo Adler
… of the 19th century liturgical music with new and modern musical settings. In 1942 he was awarded first prize by the Central Conference of American Rabbis for his liturgical settings. Hugo Adler is the father of Samuel Adler , a …
Abraham Moshe Bernstein
… A prolific composer who published both liturgical works and musical settings for Hebrew and Yiddish songs. Published …
Edward Stark
… years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … to use the Union Prayer Book, and as such, Stark composed musical settings for most of the liturgy for their service. Many of …
Isadore Freed
… Freed headed the Composition Department at the Julius Harrt Musical Foundation in Hartford , Connecticut . Two years … compositions include the Hasidic Service (1954), Psalm settings, and a selection from Salamone de Rossi 's …
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 … much as other works of his 'school.' However, some of his settings have become standards in the reform movement. His …
Elio Piattelli
… 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 … to Stefano Taché. Other compositions by Piatelli include settings from the Bible: Exodus III, 8; four-part songs on …
Abraham Ber Birnbaum
… Haikel Janowsky, who would become a central figure in his musical development. Under Janowsky’s influence, he learned … harmony. His teaching would later culminate in his book of musical theory, Torat Hazimrah Haklalit (1902). His other … teaching and composing. He composed mainly musical settings of poems (including Japanese poems). In the last …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… as well as instrumental; he published a booklet about the musical potential of the Hebrew language. Orgad’s use of … of vision Dissertation concerning Orgad work: Concert settings of Psalms by first and second generation composers …
Edwin Seroussi
… Prof. Seroussi’s research focuses on the sacred and secular musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, … constitution of Jewish identities through music making in settings as diverse as colonial Morocco and Algeria, … and the role of reception and consumption in the making of musical cultures. He has published extensively on these …
Israel Alter
… in his compositions. Alter composed cantorial works and musical settings to Yiddish poems. His collections of transcriptions …