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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 …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in composition and … Due to the lack of resources (i.e. instruments and scores), early musical activity took the form of communal singing in …