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David Aaron de Sola

… books and essays. D.A. de Sola had a lifelong passion for music. In 1857, he published The Ancient Melodies of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews , …

… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … the Idelsohnian core idea of a modern revival based on an ancient Jewish national musical past. Not surprisingly for his period, Geshuri found such an ancient repository in the Yemenite Jewish musical …

Emanuel Aguilar

… Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He received his musical education in Piano Performance and Composition in … three symphonies, three cantatas and a number of chamber music and solo piano works. Aguilar is best known for his … music of Amsterdam, as sung by Aaron David de Sola. The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and …

Julius Chajes

… appointed head of the piano department at the Beit L'viyim Music Academy of Tel Aviv. In 1934, a farewell recital in … in (then) Palestine, Chajes conducted extensive research on ancient Hebrew music. In the wake of this research and due to the local …

Haim Effendi

… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … in one of the most important centers of Sephardi religious music, Edirne, where a local Jewish choir called Maftirim used to perform its ancient repertoire of Ottoman Hebrew music on Sabbath …

Betty Olivero

… Italy. She is a full professor of composition at the Music Department in Bar-Ilan University. Betty Olivero is a … was awarded the Koussevitzky Award by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation and the Library of Congress, Washington … of contemporary compositional form, yet is inspired by ancient Jewish and other early musical traditions. Folk …

Isaac Eliyahu Navon

… of Adrianpole excelled especially in Hebrew poetry and in music, two fields in which Isaac Eliyahu Navon excelled as … important contributions was the editing and publishing of ancient piyyutim of old Turkish poets, especially those of … community which could not read Hebrew. Navon's knowledge in ancient and modern poetry came from his natural talents as a …

Bathja [Batya] Bayer

… Germany. Taken to Palestine in 1936. Received a PhD in Musicology at the University of Zurich, and later a earned a … from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Directed the music department in the National Library (1964-1974). Was a … research of Music and Archeology of Near-East ancient civilizations. Conducted an extensive archeological …

Gershon Ephros

… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union … compositions of different Jewish cultural groups, from ancient to contemporary works. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica …

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 … Sendrey published two additional major works, Music in Ancient Israel (1969), and The Music of the Jews in the …