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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of the German Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name … derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” an equivalent of the German “Bruck”) was the son of Fruma bat Tzvi and Gita … with Belarus, and his exposure to the Haskalah and modern German culture that spread to the new Jewish settlements of …
Martin Ruhnke
… Martin Ruhnke was a German musicologist. His main areas of research were … of Georg Philipp Telemann. Full biography at Wikipedia. … German musicologist … Musicologist … Baroque … Germany … Martin Ruhnke …
Fritz Rikko
… an authority on music of the Baroque era. Born in Werden, Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1941 and …
Moritz Deutsch
… choral arrangements for synagogue liturgy in the classical German style which were published in the collection, …
Manfred Lemm
… 1946 in Potsdam . In the 1960s he moved with a band through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He studied composition. In … Heidi Mordechai Gvirtig and composed them on four CDs. … German singer and musician engaged in the revival of Yiddish …
Samuel Naumbourg
… re-released in 1864. Though Naumbourg comes from the South German tradition, a large percentage of his arrangements … Agudat Shirim, which combined pieces from the South German tradition with melodies from the Western Sephardi …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… official movement. He was born in Uhlen, Württemberg (later Germany), and received his musical education at a Munich … American composers … Reform Judaism … Organ … Choirmaster … German Jews … Synagogue music … Sigmund Schlesinger …
David Nowakowsky
… was deeply influenced by Blumenthal’s heavy use of the Germanic idiom, and by his adaptations of German classics for the synagogue service. Nowakowky’s …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had … works were classified as degenerate. In 1933, Weill left Germany for France, however after a short stay there he … Centre is a cultural site in Dessau, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is a museum and information centre about the …
Aaron Copland
… extensively in England, Belgium, Italy, Austria and Germany, meeting composers and exposing himself to new …