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Sigmund Schlesinger
… and choirmasters who attempted to create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform … in Uhlen, Württemberg (later Germany), and received his musical education at a Munich conservatory. He came to the … Schlesinger collaborated with his brother, Jacob, on a popular series of pieces for the piano which was titled …
David Nowakowsky
… concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this … his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught music at several local music schools, later becoming a … His musical arrangment of the poem was later replaced by a popular folk tune, which is the melody for the National …
Kurt Weill
… he emigrated to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of … stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the ideal of writing music that …
Aaron Copland
… theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time in Paris, Copland traveled … Man and A Lincoln Portrait . These pieces gained wide popularity, strengthening his identity as a composer of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… dialogue to accompany his songs, as well as other popular Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater … melodies, Jewish folksongs, Eastern European folk and popular music, and Italian and French opera arias. Many of …
Ya'akov Orland
… Homeland and Mother, " in 1930. This song was later set to music by David Zehavi, a member of Kibbutz Naan and the … (Mitya) Zeira , who would later set many of his poems to music. One of Orland's most notable songs from this period, " Hatender Nose a" ("The Pickup Truck"), was popularized by singer Shoshana Damari . His songs "Ets …
Yedidyah Admon
… education at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and Composition in the United States. Upon his … in 1927 he published his first songs, among them the popular ' Gamal Gamali' (Camel Drivers Song). Admon was a …
Samuel Alman
… Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a … in Kishinev , Alman moved to London where he continued his musical studies at the Royal College of Music. There he … Alman also wrote and published several arrangements of popular Yiddish folk songs. … Composer of Synagogue and …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and orchestral works, popular songs, and theater music. Perhaps his most well …
Wolf Shestapol
… in Kherson and was a prolific composer, producing many popular works. His works were strongly influenced by European art music to which he was exposed to while singing with Bezalel … , and studying with Salomon Sulzer in Vienna . His fluent music reading was unusual among the cantors of his day. …