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Salamone Rossi
… Though much ink has been spilled reviewing the vast musical contribution of Jewish-Italian composer Salamone de … as the leader of an ensemble comprised mostly of Jewish musicians. While his first two works are dedicated to Duke … music history among intellectuals of Central and Western Europe in the 19th century. Wolf Jellinek, a preacher at the …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… was a distinguished opera singer, and performed across Europe. Following Nazi persecution he settled in Zurich in … Indiana University. Rothmüller composed chamber and choral music, many based on traditional Sephardic and Ashkenazi … (i.e. modern Hebrew) songs. As an author he published The Music of the Jew s: An Historical Appreciation (1953 and …
Alfred Sendrey
… Musician, conductor and musicologist Alfred Sendrey was born in 1884 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his formal musical education at the Academy of Music in Budapest. After … 1905, Sendrey began a successful conducting career across Europe and America, holding posts in Cologne (1905-07), …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He continued his music studies at the Jerusalem Music Academy, majoring in … of Islam (2003) and an honorary life membership at the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (1995). Shiloah was a …
Herzl Shmueli
… Later, he continued his studies in Zurich, studying musicology, composition and acoustics, and received his PhD … of Zurich. Shmueli taught at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music and at the music teachers' seminar, where he was also … His other fields of research included music education and European music of the 18 th and 19 th centuries. In 2001 he …
Joachim Stutschewsky
… a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in the famous Viennese … after immigration, he encouraged Israeli composers to write music based on Jewish heritage. As for himself, he favored Ashkenazi, East-European Hassidic melodies, which he often performed and …
Boaz Tarsi
… and broadcast throughout the United States, Israel and Europe, hosted by institutions and performers such as the New York Chamber Music Society, the Israeli Sinfonietta, NYC 92nd street … the Jerusalem Theater, Tel Aviv Museum, the American Jewish Music Society, the Jewish Museum in Philadelphia, San Diego …
James Loeffler
… Ph.D. Columbia University, (2006), Dissertation: 'The Most Musical Nation: Jews, Culture and Nationalism in the Late … (1996); Founding Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music (New … in Yiddish culture; history of klezmer music in Eastern Europe and the United States. … Researcher … James Loeffler …
Joseph Dorfman
… at the Odessa Academy (1958-1965), and later studied Musicology and Composition at the Gnessin Musical Institute in Moscow (1967-1971), receiving his PhD … Dorfman researched the Jewish musical tradition of Eastern Europe, focusing on the work of the Society of Jewish Folk …