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Edward Stark
… there in the early 1860’s. The Stark family settled in the German-Jewish community concentrated in the 'East 50’s' of … years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … Stark was active in many associations, including the Germania Quartet Club, an amateur singing group. He composed …
Joseph Shlisky
… 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 … arias from a variety of schools—Italian, Russian, and German. He also performed his signature rendition of …
Hans Krása
… and arranged lessons for him with the concertmaster of the German opera house in Prague . Krása’s father, a prosperous … often spent their summer vacations. Hans studied at the German Music Academy in Prague , after which he accepted a position …
Egon Ledeč
… concertmaster in 1926. He held this post until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Ledeč was an active soloist and chamber music player in Terezín. He formed the first chamber … Czech … Philharmonic … Terezin … Theresienstadt … Chamber … Music … Egon Ledeč …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… Zikmund Schul was born on January 11, 1916 in Kassell , Germany . Schul studied composition with Paul Hindemith, until he fled to Prague to seek refuge from German persecution. During the years 1937-38, Schul studied … This discovery sparked Schul's interest in Jewish musical themes, which he began to incorporate into his …
Yankele Hershkowitz (Herszkowicz)
… is known about Yankele Hershkowitz’s personal life, his musical contribution to the cultural life of the Lodz ghetto … from Vienna . Hershkowitz was one of the only street musicians that earned enough money to survive. The Lodz … 1944 and then transferred to a labor camp in Braunschweig , Germany where he was liberated in May of 1945. After the …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is not a translation but an original work of mine” (source: Germanic History [in Latin, Monumenta Germaniae Historica ]), written as a radio drama, recorded …
Joseph Roman Cycowski
… Cycowski was a singer of opera and popular music in Europe, and a cantor in the United States. Cycowski … born into a Hasidic family in Lodz, Cycowski's early musical training came as a choirboy (meshorer). He moved to Germany in 1921 to become an opera singer and joined the …
Jerome Kern
… nine children, of which only three survived. Kern began his musical career under the tutelage of his mother, who was a … Kern enrolled at the Normal College in New York to study music education. He also attended classes at the New York … 1903, Kern traveled to Europe to study music in Heidelberg, Germany, eventually settling in London, where he began …
Paul Ben-Haim
… had already developed a career as a conductor of operas in Germany in the early 1930s, which he was forced to forsake … The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps , Marc Lavry ), he wrote over 250 … and vocal, chamber and symphonic works. His conservative German, post Mahler-Strauss style with early twentieth …