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Yedidyah Admon
Yedidya Admon was born in Yekaterinoslav, Ukraine in 1894. He emigrated to Palestine…
Milan Slavicky
Milan Slavický was a Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a…
Yizhak Edel
Yitzhak Edel was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a…
Bence Szabolcsi
Bence Szabolcsi was a Hungarian music historian. He was born in Budapest, the younger…
Mark Kopytman
Mark Kopytman (b. Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine, 1929, immigrated in 1972, lived in…
Abraham Goldfaden
Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
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Sigmund Schlesinger
Sigmund Schlesinger was one of the most influential figures among the group of mid- to…
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Fritz Rikko
Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the…