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Sigmund Schlesinger
… and choirmasters who attempted to create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform … 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 … concerts comprised of his own liturgical and paraliturgical music, with instrumental accompaniment. As a result of this …
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 … to the USA. In the USA he was influenced by popular music and jazz, he met several of the outstanding figures of …
Aaron Copland
… theory and composition with Rubin Goldmark, continuing his musical education with Goldmark, Victor Wittgenstein and … studied with Nadia Boulanger at the Fontainebleau School of Music in Paris. During his time in Paris, Copland traveled … extensively in England, Belgium, Italy, Austria and Germany, meeting composers and exposing himself to new …
Paul Dessau
… Born in Hamburg , Germany . Immigrated from Germany in 1933 and returned in 1948 (to East Germany ). … Bertolt Brecht, for whose plays he wrote incidental music. Used some Jewish themes in his music (specifically in …
Hugo Adler
… officiated as cantor in the Haupt-Synagoge in Mannheim, Germany (1921-1939), and studied composition with Ernst … (1949). Adler replaced much of the 19th century liturgical music with new and modern musical settings. In 1942 he was … Hugo Chaim Adler by Edwin Seroussi … Cantor and composer in Germany and later in the US … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
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, … in C Sharp Minor (1902), were heavily influenced by the German school, specifically composer Richard Strauss. The …
Zecharia Plavin
… From 1977 in Israel, graduated from Tel Aviv University and Music Academy (piano class of Professor Viktor Derevianko), … and recordings for Meridian (London) and Sound-Star-Ton (Germany). Numerous recordings for Israeli Broadcasting … Sibelius). Numerous chamber music collaborations in Israel, Germany and Lithuania. PhD dissertation of Hebrew University …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … he spent mostly in Berlin and gave concerts in different German cities. His playing was praised by Joseph Joachim, … house “Jibneh,” taught violin and toured throughout Germany and abroad ( Latvia , Austria , Italy and Egypt ). …
Gustav Mahler
… (in present-day Czech Republic) surrounded by a flourishing German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius …