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Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … Jewish music, written for the Juedisches Lexicon and the German Encyclopedia Judaica. A full biography can be found here on the 'Music and the Holocaust' website. … German poet & liturgical musicologist … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Nahum Nardi
… he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, … performing, combining his classical repertoire with folk music, such as Russian folksongs, Hassidic music and Hebrew … began a joint concert tour of Jewish communities in Poland, Germany, Latvia, Belgium, Holland and France. In September …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), … about 100 of his pieces have been published by the Israel Music Institute. He was the most distinctive among the first … that is based on folklore, and (implicitly) supporting German hegemony in music. Tal’s works, mostly atonal and …
Nissan Blumenthal
… choral singing for four voices. Influenced by his study of German classical music, he adapted melodies from the composers, Handel, … and Mendelssohn in his arrangements of liturgical music. In 1870 he hired David Nowakowsky as choir-leader, …
Michele Bolaffi
… Michele Bolaffi was a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be … as the musical director to the Duke of Cambridge; toured in Germany with singer Angelica Catalani; and was in the …
Mikhail Gnesin
… born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical education with Cantor Gerovitz and pianist Oscar … where he was hired as a composition teacher at the State Music School . After a tenure of ten years, Gnesin traveled to Germany to help found the Jibneh music publishing house …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… Israel Meyer Japhet was born in Kassel , Germany . In 1853 he began working as choir master and … in 1892. Japhet composed a large body of Jewish liturgical music for use in his Synagogue. His arrangements were … and harmonically simple and were heavily influenced by German Leid and Protestant hymns. He also published a wide …
Eliezer S. Abinun
… in Croatian concentration camps and in Auschwitz during the German occupation of Yugoslavia in the Second World War. … He was an acknowledged authority on both the liturgical music and the secular Romancero tradition of the Sephardim. …
Isaac Offenbach
… He left his hometown in 1799 to travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der … editor and translator. He published a Haggadah with a German translation, an appendix of original and traditional melodies (1838), and a Hebrew-German youth prayer book (1839). … Cantor & composer … …
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 … career as a cello virtuoso, traveling throughout France and Germany and performing with noted musicians and composers …