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Alexander L. Ringer
Alexander L. Ringer was an American research musicologist and educator of Dutch and…
Milan Slavicky
Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a…
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Esther R. Warkov
Esther Warkov's seminal contributions to the study of Arab music and Arab-Jewish…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
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Sigmund Schlesinger
Sigmund Schlesinger was one of the most influential figures among the group of mid- to…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
Paul Dessau
Born in Hamburg, Germany. Immigrated from Germany in 1933 and returned in 1948 (to East…
Theodor Bikel
Born in Vienna, Austria and immigrated to Palestine with his parents at age 13. Studied…
Albert Elias
Elias was a virtuoso nay player, composer and instrument maker. In Baghdad Elias studied…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…