… Aaron De Sola was descended from a distinguished family of Sephardim, who emigrated from Spain in 1492 and the family … books and essays. D.A. de Sola had a lifelong passion for music. In 1857, he published The Ancient Melodies of the … account of the poets, poetry, and melodies of the Sephardic liturgy. In the notation of the melodies he was …

… The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps , Marc Lavry ), he wrote over 250 … and incorporated the arrangements that he made for her Sephardi and Yemenite tunes into his symphonies and other … his colleague Peter Gradenwitz (his publisher, well-known musicologist). Among Ben-Haim’s other notable works are his …