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Moses Beregovski
… Moses Beregovski was born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a … Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences between the years of 1930-1948. During …
Yehezkiel Braun
… (b. Breslau, 1922, immigrated in 1924, lived in Tel-Aviv), the senior of Israeli composers who were raised and educated … choral music. A 2001 Israel Prize laureate, he is probably the most published Israeli composer, with over 120 works … (who supported folklorism à la Bartók) in the Tel-Aviv Academy of Music (1947-53), and later at the St. Pierre de …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Morocco and in 1952 immigrated to Israel alone as part of the Youth Aliyah. He studied at the Tel Aviv Teachers' College of Music and the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. He studied playing the flute …
Judit Frigyesi
… teacher and poet. She received her Ph.D in History and Theory of Music from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and her Master's … and in Ethnomusicology, respectively, from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Her research focuses on the …
Edith (Esther) Gerson Kiwi
… harpsichord performance under teacher Wanda Landowska at the Ecole de Musique Ancienne. In 1933, she finished her doctorate under Besseler at the University of Heidelberg with a dissertation on the … she founded the Museum of Musical Instruments at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem . Gerson-Kiwi served as a …
Andre Hajdu
… assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject he rarely commented on), André Hajdu enrolled after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre …
Aron Friedmann
… studied in Berlin and in 1882 was appointed chief hazzan of the Old Synagogue of the Berlin community, a post he held until 1923. He received the title of Koeniglicher Musikdirektor, Royal Academy of Art, Berlin, 1907. In 1901, he published Shir …
Jehoash Hirshberg
… Jehoash Hirshberg (1938–2025) was born in Tel Aviv. His father, Yitzhak, was a teacher, and translator, and his mother, Nechama, was an educator. From an early age, he was … pursued his academic and musical training at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music, earning a master’s degree in performance, …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… he trained to be a cantor. He continued his education at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and at the Leipzig Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat Jeshurun …
Louis Lewandowski
… Louis Lewandowski was born in Wreschen, Poland in 1821. At the age of thirteen, as a result of his mother’s death and family’s extreme poverty, Lewandowski moved … patron and whose support enabled him to attend the Berlin Academy of the Arts, an institution which previously had not …