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Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
… In 1887 began officiating as cantor in Rostov , and stayed there for 25 years. Known for his two volume collection of …
Uri Aharon
… in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For forty-two years he was a senior lecture in the field of musicology on behalf of the Ministry of Education at several colleges in Israel. He …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had rabbinical roots. After establishing himself with … famous with playwright Bertold Brecht through such works as TheThree-Penny Opera . With Hitler's rise to power, his …
Darius Milhaud
… conductor, and teacher, widely recognized as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Born to a Jewish family in Marseilles and raised in Aix-en-Provence , Milhaud was a member of the avant-garde group known as Les Six . He drew inspiration …
Aaron Copland
… of Lithuanian Jewish descent. In 1917 he began studying theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his … From 1921 to 1924 Copland studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time … continued his studies with Boulanger long after he left the Fontainebleau school, and it was under her tutelage that …
Paul Dessau
… (to East Germany ). Known mostly for his collaboration with the famous playwright, Bertolt Brecht, for whose plays he wrote incidental music. Used some Jewish themes in his music (specifically in his oratorio, Haggadah …
Erich Walter Sternberg
… (Berlin, 1891 – Tel-Aviv 1974, immigrated in 1932) was the first local composer performed by the Palestine Orchestra (1937). His style was mostly … Israeli” because of that Zeitgeist favoring East-West syntheses, and hence under-appreciated – as was his major work, …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, …
Theodor Bikel
… to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in London (1946-1948), and immigrated to the United States in the 1950's. As a singer and as an actor, Bikel performed in …
Samuel Benaroya
… http://www.sbhseattle.org/Bio-Rev_Benaroya.stm … One of the last singers of the Maftirim Choir of the city of Edirne (Turkey). … Samuel Benaroya …