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Jehoash Hirshberg
… Jehoash Hirshberg (1938–2025) was born in Tel Aviv. His father, Yitzhak, was a teacher, and translator, and his mother, Nechama, was an educator. From an early age, he was … role in strengthening the status of musicology within Israeli higher education. Hirshberg’s principal field of …
Ruth Katz
… Ruth Katz is an Israeli musicologist, a pioneer of academic musicology in Israel, professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been a corresponding Member of the American Musicological Society since 2011. She was named …
Peter Emanuel Gradenwitz
… In 1936 he immigrated to Palestine, where he founded the first publishing house. He wrote a history of Jewish Music "Hamuzika Beyisrael ." … Israeli musicologist and composer … Peter Emanuel Gradenwitz …
Yehuda Ratzaby
… Prof. Yehuda Ratzaby was born in the small village Sava'n in central Yemen, a two-hour walk from Sanaa. His father, Rabbi Yeh'ya, was one of the leaders of the community … same time, he published articles in his areas of interest: Israeli literature and Yemeni culture. In 1963, he …
Menashe Ravina
… years old, his family relocated to Novogrudok , where his father took on the role of chief cantor, leading a synagogue choir. Ravina … played in the orchestra of Mordechai Golinkin 's Eretz-Israeli Opera and conducted several choirs, including the …
Solomon Rosowsky
… Riga in 1878. After completing his first degree in Law at the University of Kiev , Rosowsky went on to study music at the St. Petersburg Imperial Conservatory under teachers … cantillation based on his research of the Lituanian-Israeli tradition. The massive work is broken up into three …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… Empire; a small locality near Slavonski Brod, today southern Croatia). Studied in Zagreb and Vienna (1928-1932), … persecution he settled in Zurich in 1935. Immigrated to the USA in 1955, where he taught voice at Indiana … Library of Israel holds correspondence by Rothmüller with Israeli composers Alexander Uriah Boscovich and Marc Lavry …
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 … update the manuscript with new publications contributed by Israeli musicians and musicologists extended the project …
Amnon Shiloah
… Syria in 1931. In 1942, as a teenager, he took upon himself the dangerous journey of moving from Syria to Mandatory British Palestine/Eretz Israel through the Golan Heights. He joined the Meir Shfeya boarding school … of Arabic music theory. He also contributed to the study of Israeli art music. Shiloah was awarded prestigious prizes …
Herzl Shmueli
… in Istanbul and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. He studied theory and composition with Arieh Uri Boscovich at the Tel Aviv Conservatory (1944-1948). Later, he continued … 1987-1989). Shmueli was one of the first to research Israeli music, including Israeli folksongs and art music. …