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Asher Shimon Mizrahi
… meal for Shabbat) to be cooked in the Mizrahi oven. From an early age, people in the community took notice of Asher Mizrahi’s pleasant voice and musical talents, and he began to earn money working as a … age of 35, Mizrahi composed a tribute in her honor. In the early 1930’s, Asher Mizrahi traveled to Paris to make a …
Isaac Offenbach
… He left his hometown in 1799 to travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der … settled in Duetz where he worked for many years as a saloon musician. Offenbach moved to Cologne in 1816 where he was … as a local hazzan. He retained his post as hazzan for nearly twenty-five years until his death in 1850. Isaac …
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 … of the cello, which became his main solo instrument in his early performance career. His first composition teachers in …
Edward Stark
… eldest sons of the Stark family who had moved there in the early 1860’s. The Stark family settled in the German-Jewish … years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … for most of the liturgy for their service. Many of these early arrangements were later included in his collection …
Joseph Shlisky
… had come to assume choirmaster duties there. Shlisky’s early years in Toronto were not easy. The cantor, who … a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing …
Isadore Freed
… States and settled in Philadelphia , PA. Freed studied music formally at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in music at the age of 18. In 1923, Freed spent five months in … 13, 1948 by the Foundation's Opera Department. In the early years of Freed’s tenure at Knesseth Israel he began to …
Frederick Piket
… Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe. He was a successful secular … synagogue music composition. Piket spent his childhood and early career in Europe, and immigrated to the United States … director of the White Plains Jewish Community center in the early 1950’s. Subsequently, Piket worked as a composition …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … liquidation in 1944. Cultural activity continued in the early years of the war and of ghetto life, and new forms of … and in the sports hall of the ghetto’s gymnasium. In the early years of the war, the ghetto's Symphony Orchestra, the …
Gideon Klein
… At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in … prisoners. Since Klein had no access to a piano in the early months of his imprisonment, he focused on composition … , Viktor Ullmann , Pavel Haas , and Karel Berman . One early collaboration was with Rafael Schachter for whose …
Emanuel Zamir
… to parents who were among the founders of the colony. At an early age, he was influenced by the songs of composer … songs, in general, for which he wrote both words and music, portray sceneries borrowed from the world of … sold on records. In this hopeless struggle against foreign music, in 1948, Zamir started broadcasting on all of the …