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Yehezkiel Braun

… in Israel , is most known for his often-performed choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most … composer, with over 120 works published by the Israel Music Institute. His feeling for modality in harmony and … but also some Ashkenazi ones and Israeli folklore (Russian-French influenced) – which he compared with …

Abraham Zvi Idelsohn

… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … that I prefer to be with my brothers even in a place like Russian than to live in a free country like England and …

Amnon Shiloah

… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He continued his music studies at the Jerusalem Music Academy, majoring in … in five languages (Arabic, English, French, Hebrew and Russian), including twenty books, edited works, recordings, …

James Loeffler

… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late Russian Empire'; M.A. Columbia University (2000); … DC). Research interests: History of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history …

Ivan Lipaev

… from 1924–31. He was also dedicated to the modernization of music pedagogy in the Russian empire and advocated for better conditions for music … gazeta . Full biography at ' Ivan Lipaev ', Wikipedia. … Russian music critic, composer, writer, social advocate, …

Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 09[E]: Der Volksgesang der osteuropaeischen Juden [The Folk Song of the East European Jews]

… HOM Vol IX contains Jewish folk songs in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, and Ukranian. Each song is printed with … folk songs, in that the emphasis is on the structure of the music instead of the text. Musical considerations shaped Idelsohn's classification and …

Hebraeisch-orientalischer Melodienschatz, 09[G]: Der Volksgesang der osteuropaeischen Juden

… volume contains Jewish folk songs in the Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian and Ukranian languages. Each song is printed with … is the text; here, the emphasis is on the structure of the music. Musical considerations are also involved in the …

Alexander Krein's Kaddish, op.23,manuscript by the Soviet Jewish coposer, lost since the Nazi era.

… “Kaddish” (1921-22)in memory of his parents, by setting a Russian poem by his friend Aleksander Orsanin to what he … Universal-Edition, Vienna. Krejn continued to write Jewish music until the end of the 1920s, at which point he started … artificial form. A brief survey of the consequences of Russian cultural politics for Jewish music after the Russian …

David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.]

… at the Gosudarstvennaja Konservatorija. In the periodical “Musica Judaica” (RILM 19862709) he discussed his experiences … Pennsylvania. While his works owe a formal debt to the Russian school of composition as represented by Sostakovic, … David Finko: Russkij kompozitor v Amerike. [David Finko: A Russian composer in America.] …

Iulii engel i evreiskii muzykal’nyi natsional’izm v rossii [Iulii Engel and Jewish Musical Nationalism]

… … 1 … St. Petersburg … Russian Institute for the History of the Arts … … … muzykal’nyi natsional’izm v rossii [Iulii Engel and Jewish Musical Nationalism] …

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