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Karel Salmon
… Germany, Salmon studied composition with Richard Strauss at the Berlin Academy of the Arts, and later worked as a repetiteur at the Berlin Staatsoper, singer at the Hamburg Opera, and conductor in Baden. He …
Israel Najara
… using melodies of foreign songs that were common among the Jewish and non-Jewish public of his time. He is considered to be one of the greatest Hebrew poets of the period after the expulsion … … Song … Poet … Hebrew … Writer … Composer … Rabbi … Singer … Songs … Israel Najara …
Mathew Miller (Matisyahu)
… performing and recording ever since for fans all around the world. His artistic style combines reggae, rock, and … of Orthodox Jewish belief and popular music. For further reading about Matisyahu and the Hasidic Reggae … biography on Matisyahu's official website, click here . … Singer, songwriter … Hasidic … Singer … Songwriter … …
Yehiel 'Adaki
… in Manakhah in 1903 [1] to Aharon and Margalit 'Adaki. The family originated from Sana'a, but Yehiel's paternal grandfather left due to starvation in Sana'a, and worked in the H … two weeks, with various events happening throughout. The singers used to build a singing program for each event and …
Don Harrán
… Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research interests: word-tone relations in music and theory from the Greeks to the seventeenth century; humanism … seventeenth-century Italy; early Jewish women as poets and singers; the beginnings of Hebrew musical historiography. … …
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 … there came to Belin Cantor Boruch Schor, who looked for singers. My colleagues who accepted Schor’s invitation, …
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 to Berlin to work as a singer in cantor Ascher Lion’s choir. During his time in …
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 … entered the service of Duke Vincenzo I in 1587, first as a singer and as a violist and then as the leader of an …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Empire; a small locality near Slavonski Brod, today southern Croatia). Studied in Zagreb and Vienna (1928-1932), was a distinguished opera singer, and performed across Europe. Following Nazi … persecution he settled in Zurich in 1935. Immigrated to the USA in 1955, where he taught voice at Indiana …
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 … also composed several works for Synagogue worship. … Singer, composer & researcher … Composers … Conductor … …