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Joseph Roman Cycowski
… Cycowski was a singer of opera and popular music in Europe, and a cantor in the … musical training came as a choirboy (meshorer). He moved to Germany in 1921 to become an opera singer and joined the popular vocal sextet, the …

The Politics of Music in the Third Reich
… Research: Bibliographies Explores the affect of Nazism on German music in the 1930s and 1940s, includnig propaganda, … National Socialist concepts of race on classical music and opera, and a discussion of the relationship between composer … … Classical music … Third Reich … Nazi Nazis … Propoganda … German music … National Socialist … Composer … Michael Meyer …
Hans Krása
… and arranged lessons for him with the concertmaster of the German opera house in Prague . Krása’s father, a prosperous Czech … often spent their summer vacations. Hans studied at the German Music Academy in Prague , after which he accepted a …

Avraham Daus
… Israeli composer. Born in Berlin. Worked in Germany as an opera conductor. Immigrated to Israel in 1936. Worked as …

Samuel Naumbourg
… re-released in 1864. Though Naumbourg comes from the South German tradition, a large percentage of his arrangements mimic the style of Parisian grand opera, a genre that was a pervasive force in the cultural … Agudat Shirim, which combined pieces from the South German tradition with melodies from the Western Sephardi …
Viktor Ullmann
… Ullmann the position of chorus master and répétiteur at the German Theater in Prague. Initially Ullmann’s duties were … recruited Ullman’s help for large productions staged by the German Male Choral Society. In addition to his work at the … Two years later, Ullmann received the same prize for his opera Der Sturz des Antichrist , but after serval failed …

Alfred Sendrey
… Brno (1908-11), Hamburg (1912-13), New York (Century Opera Company, 1913-14), Berlin-Charlottenburg (1914-16), … Sendrey accepted a position as the director of the Central German Radio in Berlin, and taught simultaneously at the … a recognized composer. His corpus includes a full-scale opera, several orchestral works, chamber music, and art …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had … himself with several satirical and surrealistic operas, he became famous with playwright Bertold Brecht … works were classified as degenerate. In 1933, Weill left Germany for France, however after a short stay there he …
Representations of Jews in the Musical Theater of the Habsburg Empire (1788-1807)
… the first positive Jewish characters began to appear on the German stage, presenting an alternative to the common … society were depicted in the composition of music for opera and other theatrical genres....Buch’s volume takes its … be able to distil from some of the less mocking of these operatic renderings of Jewish voices some evidence of the …

Michele Bolaffi
… as the musical director to the Duke of Cambridge; toured in Germany with singer Angelica Catalani; and was in the … synagogue. Bolafi also composed secular music, including an opera Saul, a Misere for three voices and orchestra (1802), …