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Moshe Koussevitsky
… Shlepak. Koussevitzky moved to Vilna as an adolescent to study voice with Hazzan Elijah Salutkowski and enrolled at …
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
… in the choir of a local synagogue. Kwartin went on to study hazzanut formally in Vienna , where he later received …
Sholom Secunda
… in mathematics, Sholom was accepted to Cooper Union to study engineering. Though he showed promise, Sholom still … Art (today the Julliard School), where he began full-time study in 1914. Sholom's first engagement in a Yiddish …
Mordekhai Seter
… further his musical education in Europe (Paris, 1932-1937, studying with Nadia Boulanger and Pnina Salzman ). Like his …
Wolf Shestapol
… to while singing with Bezalel Shulsinger in Odessa , and studying with Salomon Sulzer in Vienna . His fluent music …
Gershon Sirota
… and original styles. Yakovkin encouraged Sirota to consider studying music formally at the Odessa Conservatory of Music. … of Odessa . In 1894, Sirota was offered a scholarship to study at the Conservatory of Vienna, which his congregation …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… singing. He participated in many local synagogue choirs, studying under notable hazzanim such as Eliezer Gerovich. … professor Karatkoff. At the age of 16, while performing and studying in Vinitsa, Weisser composed his first original …
Nissan Blumenthal
… developed choral singing for four voices. Influenced by his study of German classical music, he adapted melodies from …
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
… in composition from the Liceo Musicale of Bologna in 1918, studying under renowned composer Ildebrando Pizzetti. His …
Mikhail Gnesin
… Fritch at the Rostov Technical Institute. He went on to study composition at the Petersburg Conservatory with noted … Liadov, Glazunov and Rimsky-Korsakov. After traveling and studying throughout Europe , Gnesin returned to Rostov where … Gnesin published several books on composition, and a study of Rimsky-Korsakov’s life and work. … Russian …