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Marc Lavry
… Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories under teachers Scherchen … conducting posts in Riga and Saarbrucken and a position as the director of the Laban Dance Ensemble in Berlin. In 1929, … for the broadcasts. Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber …
Nahum Nardi
… He was named after his uncle Dudu 'Noyhem,' who was the court rabbi of the community. He began his piano studies at age seven, … the play Megilat Esther , which was performed at the Erets-Yisraeli Theater [4] of Gnessin , in 1928, and Bamitbakh by …
Mordekhai Seter
… – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926) received the Israel Prize in 1965 for his Midnight Vigil ( Tikkun … an oratorio for tenor, three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been considered since its premiere in 1961 as an Israeli masterpiece. Midnight Vigil , performed in …
Mattityahu Shelem
… His most renowned work is Havaʼat haʻomer , composed for the Omer festival of Ramat Yohanan. This work and Yehuda Sharett 's Seder constitute the central musical pieces of the 'new ceremonies' of the … Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online . … Israeli composer … Composers … Folksongs … Song … Zemer …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… and lecturer, has gained an exceptional reception in the last decades. As one of the most published local composers, about 100 of his pieces … and a 1983 recipient of the prestigious Wolf Prize—the only Israeli composer who has won this prize. He also served as …
Efraim Di-Zahav (Goldstein)
… Born in Jerusalem on January 30, 1902, His father was R. Abraham Moshe Goldstein, a cantor who immigrated to Israel from Odessa, and who was a pupil of the renowned cantor Bezalel Odesser-Schulsinger. The young … Ezra School in Jerusalem. Efraim Di-Zahav is known to the Israeli public through the piyut, 'Eliahu ha Navi (Elijah …
Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… Asher Shimon Mizrahi was born in the old city of Jerusalem in 1890 to father Yitzhak Mizrahi, who was a well-known torah scholar and … was a great admirer of Asher Mizrahi. In an interview on Israeli television for the movie series “Mikratago …
David Abikzer
… Abikzer was born in 1939 in Casablanca, Morocco, and it was there that he began his musical education. His vocal talent … age, and as a child he received encouragement from his mother to continue to sing. At age 17 he moved to Israel with his family, where he served in the Israeli army and got married. Five years later, he was …
Eitan Avitzur
… as a composer. He completed his professional education at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem and at the Mozarteum of Salzburg where he specialized in advaced … orchestras of Israel in concerts, recordings for the Israeli radio and television and for commercial records. He …
David Zehavi
… David Zehavi was an Israeli composer. His grandparents on his father's side immigrated to Israel from Romania in 1877 as part of the first Aliyah. They came to Tiberias and later moved to …