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Paul Dessau
Born in Hamburg, Germany. Immigrated from Germany in 1933 and returned in 1948 (to East…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
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Sigmund Schlesinger
Sigmund Schlesinger was one of the most influential figures among the group of mid- to…
Manfred Lemm
Manfred Lemm was born on April 17, 1946 in Potsdam. In the 1960s he moved with a band…
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Fritz Rikko
Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the…
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Martin Ruhnke
Martin Ruhnke was a German musicologist. His main areas of research were the…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Chemjo Vinaver
Born in Warsaw to a Hassidic family. He commenced his studies in Warsaw and continued in…
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
Jacques Stroumsa was born in Salonika in 1913, the son of a distinguished teacher and…