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Solomon Rosowsky
… Riga in 1878. After completing his first degree in Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under teachers … and Lyadov, and studied conducting with Nikisch at the Leipzig Konservatorium. He helped to found the St. …
Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer … Salamone de Rossi, not much is known about his life. The little information that we do know has been gleaned from references to salary payments from the Mantuan Court, letters from two successive dukes …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Empire; a small locality near Slavonski Brod, today southern Croatia). Studied in Zagreb and Vienna (1928-1932), … persecution he settled in Zurich in 1935. Immigrated to the USA in 1955, where he taught voice at Indiana … (i.e. modern Hebrew) songs. As an author he published The Music of the Jew s: An Historical Appreciation (1953 …
Eliyahu Schleifer
… Dr. Schleifer is Professor of Sacred Music and Director of the School of Sacred Music at HUC-JIR/Jerusalem. He began his musical training at the age of 5 as a choirboy at the synagogue choir of Shirat Israel Institute. He studied …
Alfred Sendrey
… Hungary. He received his formal musical education at the Academy of Music in Budapest. After completing his … (1914-16), Vienna (Volksoper, 1916-18) and Leipzig (Oper Theater 1918-24 and Symphony Orchestra 1930-32). While … Sendrey was accepted to pursue his PhD in Musicology at the Universität Leipzig. In 1933, Sendrey accepted a …
Yael Shai
… Yael Shai studied PhD studies at Bar-Ilan University. The topic of the doctoral thesis: the processes of change in the traditional musical …
Amnon Shiloah
… Syria in 1931. In 1942, as a teenager, he took upon himself the dangerous journey of moving from Syria to Mandatory British Palestine/Eretz Israel through the Golan Heights. He joined the Meir Shfeya boarding school of Aliyat Hano’ar in …
Herzl Shmueli
… in Istanbul and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He studied theory and composition with Arieh Uri Boscovich at the Tel Aviv Conservatory (1944-1948). Later, he continued … and acoustics, and received his PhD in 1953 from the University of Zurich. Shmueli taught at the Tel Aviv …
Joachim Stutschewsky
… cellist, composer, arranger, and writer, a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in the famous Viennese quartets: the Jena String Quartet, and …
Geoffrey Goldberg
… Maier Levi of Esslingen: A Small-Town Hazzan in the Time of the Emancipation and his Cantorial Compendium (2001). … Historical development of Ashkenazi Liturgical Music; the influence of minhag in the development of liturgical …