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Alexander L. Ringer
… Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and Polish descent. He … University (1983), and Heidelberg University - Academy for Jewish Studies (1983). Ringer also gave guest lectures at … Centre. Ringer lead ethnomusicology research projects to study the maqam tradition in the Middle East (1970-1975) and …
Milan Slavicky
… Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both his … Brno, under the instruction of Jan Kapr. He then went on to study musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, …
David Aaron de Sola
… entered as a student to the bet ha-midrash in Amsterdam, studying diligently, and after a course of nine years … books and essays. D.A. de Sola had a lifelong passion for music. In 1857, he published The Ancient Melodies of the … in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Biographies: see Jewish Encyclopedia website. 'David de Aaron de Sola' in …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… a talented milliner. The oldest of four children, he showed musical talent at a young age. After completing secondary school, he went to Marseilles, France to study engineering, while simultaneously taking violin … end of the war. Gradually the Nazis imposed a series of ‘Jewish laws’, restricting activities and employment of …
Viktor Ullmann
… 1909, the Ullmann family moved to Vienna, and Viktor began studying music theory with Dr. Josef Pohlaneur. In 1918, Viktor … them to H.G. Adler after the war. Ullmann’s interest in Jewish themes peaked for the first time in Terezín, …
Esther R. Warkov
… Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish musicians in Iraq and Israel feature prominently on …
Daniel Meir Weil
… In the field of Jewish musicology, he earned a second PhD from the Hebrew … cognitive experiment, the publication of a comparative study with Beta Israel material (Olivier Tourny, co-author) …
Hirsch Weintraub
… son of cantor-composer Solomon Weintraub , and started his musical training at an early age singing as a chorister in … formal studies of music and violin. Later he left to study harmony in Vienna (where he was influenced greatly by … . (Written by Ofer Ronen) Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music (Macy Nulman). Binder, A. W. Preface. 'Schire …
Mordechai Yardeni (Motl Sherman)
… yeshiva Mishkan Israel. Later he enrolled in The School of Music and Drama. As a writer, Sherman made his debut writing … after a short stay in Israel, where Sherman continued to study music, he once again entered the theater stage: this … singer, with a repertoire of 'Israelian' songs and Jewish liturgy. From 1940 he began to accept offers from …
Akiva Zimmermann
… a bank employee, while devoting all his spare time to the study of hazzanut . Zimmerman grew up in Tel Aviv, a city … in literature and the press and a great scholar of all Jewish and Israeli beings. He knew many of Israel's leaders … articles on a variety of topics - from hazzanut and Jewish music to current affairs in politics and society. He also …