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Gustav Mahler
… German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music … received his first conducting position at Bad Hall, a small theater south of Linz in Austria . A year later, Mahler began working as a conductor for the Landestheater in Laibach, a larger and more prestigious …
Nahum Nardi
… he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, … to his songs, Nardi also wrote incidental music for the theater. Several examples include the play Megilat Esther , which was performed at the Erets-Yisraeli Theater [4] of Gnessin , in 1928, and Bamitbakh by Shalom …
Sholom Secunda
… and C. Once in New York, Mr. Wolf began to manage Sholom's musical career, setting up engagements in a number of … for a Shabbat service. Sholom got his start in Yiddish theater shortly after arriving to New York City. While his … he was contracted to lead services at the Thalia Theater on the Lower East Side. It was then that he came …
Mordekhai Hershman
… El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … advertised morning liturgical services at the Ohel Shem theater led by the famous cantor Mordecai Hershman … Yiddish talkie, when it was presented at the “Metro” cinema theater in Warsaw. The film, based on the 1911 operetta of …
Jacques Offenbach
… was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach , a local music teacher and hazzan. He was identified as a musical … on 15th century Hebrew melodies, debuted at the Jardin Turc Theater. During the 1840’s Offenbach advanced his career … continued to submit his work to be staged by local Parisian theaters, but met with little success. In 1850 he took a …
Isaac Schlossberg
… (also known as Leibke Aluxter) were cantors. He studied music and the basics of hazzanut in Vilna under the … Destruction of Jerusalem') by the troupe of the Jewish theater Avrum-Olter Fishzon. Later, for several years, … he worked as a composer and conductor of the leading Jewish theaters: 'The Rock', 'Novosti', and the Kaminsky troupe. …
Sasha Argov
… half Argov began to study piano with his mother, who was a music teacher. Although Argov dabbled in composition as a young boy, he never studied music or composition formally. As a young adult he worked … and meter. Argov was also a prolific composer of film and theater music. Some of his scores include: Rak lo beShabat …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … he became the director of the Yitskhok Zanberg Yiddish Theater Company. In addition, he was affiliated with the Azazel and Ararat Yiddish Theaters centered in Lodz. In the winter of 1940, Begylman …
Moishe Oysher
… to Canada in 1921, where he joined a traveling Yiddish theater company. In 1932, he founded a Yiddish theater troupe in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After managing … made numerous recordings of both secular and liturgical music, collaborating on several occasions with Yiddish music …
Gideon Klein
… At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in … Kurz. That same year, he began a double-degree program in musicology and philosophy at the Karl University. In the … in December of 1941, Klein continued to perform in small theaters throughout Prague under the pseudonym Karel Vránek. …