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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, … many other famous New York halls. The couple divorced after three years of marriage. Nardi continued working with other …
Sholom Secunda
… was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson province, to parents Abraham and Anna Secunda. He was the sixth of nine children born to the Secunda family. In … send actors and composers outside of New York for at least three years before considering their candidacy. In 1922, …
Mordekhai Seter
… – Tel-Aviv, 1994, immigrated to Palestine in 1926) received the Israel Prize in 1965 for his Midnight Vigil ( Tikkun Hatzot ), an oratorio for tenor, three choirs and orchestra depicting the redemption of the Jewish people. This oratorio has been …
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 … 1970's. He has written over 20 chamber pieces, including three string quartets (1959, 1964, 1976), and over 12 pieces …
Michele Bolaffi
… a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be considered a turning … secular music, including an opera Saul, a Misere for three voices and orchestra (1802), a sonetto on the death of …
Mordekhai Hershman
… was born in 1888 in Chernigov (Polish: Chernikhov) in the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire, today Chernihiv in Ukraine and died in … Yossele Rosenblatt and Zavel Kwartin (1874-1952) became the three pre-eminent figures of the cantorial Golden Age—each …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… . In 1853 he began working as choir master and teacher at the Orthodox Synagogue in Frankfurt , where he remained … a wide range of instructive texts on Hebrew grammar, and on the correct cantillation of the Bible according to the … Japhet’s seminal work was Schire Jeschurun (1922), a three-volume collection of over 100 synagogue melodies for …
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 … Raul Jorno recounted that Asher Mizrahi was “one of the three greatest composers in Tunisia ” and noted that “only …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… The Rev Eliezer Abinun Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in 1912. He began his studies at the Jewish seminary in Sarajevo, where his father, though … at the start of his second visit to Britain, in 1936. Three years later, he was appointed assistant hazzan, and …
Jacques Offenbach
… Jacques Offenbach was born in Cologne to father Isaac Offenbach , a local music teacher and hazzan. He was identified as a musical prodigy early on, and at the age of four he began to study violin with his father. By … (1858), two-act ballet Le papillon at the Opéra, and three-act Barkouf at the Opéra-Comique. His opéras …