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Milan Slavicky
… Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both his … director and radio playwright, being behind more than 500 classical music recordings, with a great emphasis on …
Efraim Yaakov
… memory: (translated from Hebrew) '... Efraim, unlike the classical historian, did not look for a history only in old … and especially recruited people on the subject of the music of the Jews of southern Yemen ... '. Sources (in …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … in Berlin and Dresden opened before him the world of classical Western music. One of his very early articles in … canon (Felix Mendelssohn and Anton Rubinstein) and to classical music performance during his own period. At the …
Moritz Deutsch
… vocal talent however that brought him to Vienna to study music and the cantorial tradition. In 1842 Deutsch was … the Breslau Theological Seminary, where he taught cantorial music for over 30 years. In 1859, Deutsch helped to found … composed choral arrangements for synagogue liturgy in the classical German style which were published in the …
Uri Aharon
… researcher, author of two books and many articles in music, plays classical, Jewish and folk music on the flute. For forty-two years he was a senior …
Kurt Weill
… to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of … . All the while, he never stopped writing operas and classical music. He wrote several works for the concert hall … Hope, Israel's national anthem) … Hatikvah … Vocal music … Classical music … Kurt Weill …
Ernest Bloch
… United States in 1916, and in 1920 was appointed the first Musical Director of the fledgling Cleveland Institute of Music, a position he held until 1925. Bloch’s early works, … for the chamber ensemble and began experimenting with neo-classical forms, atonality and serialism. He died in …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he … Yuli Achron was a local merchant and a maskil, an expert on classical Hebrew and a baal-kore in the synagogue who also …
Emanuel Aguilar
… Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He received his musical education in Piano Performance and Composition in … teaching career, but continued to give regular concerts of classical repertoire. His corpus includes two operas, three symphonies, three cantatas and a number of chamber music and solo piano works. Aguilar is best known for his …
Nahum Nardi
… he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, Nardi began performing across Europe, playing classical repertoire in his concerts. In 1923 he immigrated … to Palestine and continued performing, combining his classical repertoire with folk music, such as Russian …