(173 results found)
Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi
… Court musician. Al-Mansur Al-Yahudi was court musician for the Umayyad Caliph Al-Hakam I in Cordoba, Spain … source from the 17th century suggests that he was instrumental in bringing the famous musician Ziryab to …
Jacob Gilboa
… Starting in 1944 he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music with Josef Tal and Paul Ben-Haim . His participation in the Courses for New Music in Cologne in 1963 and 1964 under Karlheinz … tones, electronics, and unconventional instrumental combinations. His best-known work is Twelve …
Yitzhak Graziani
… Yitzhak Graziani was born in Russe , Bulgaria . His musical path began in grade-school, as he participated in various orchestras as an instrumentalist. During the Nazi occupation of Bulgaria , … married a woman named Dora, and enrolled in the Academy of Music in Sofia . In 1948, Graziani immigrated with his …
Marcus Hast
… the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the … regarding Hast that appeared in the yahoo group jewishulmusic : Hast claims to have published the first volume of … Encyclopaedia of Jewish Music, he has credits for instrumental works and an oratorio, though I doubt any of …
Ezra Aharon ("Azuri")
… ‘ud player, singer, conductor, and performer of Arab art music. He was student of Tanburi Ibrahim Bey in Iraq and was … for the ‘ud at the 1932 International Congress of Oriental Music, Cairo. Aharon immigrated from Iraq to Israel in 1935 … songs with both Hebrew and Arabic texts as well as large instrumental and vocal works in Oriental styles. He had …
Ben-Zion Orgad
… Orgad has been most known as a principal figure on the music education scene for over three decades. He served as the national Superintendent of Music Education between 1975 and 1988. He studied with … of the Hebrew language in his works – vocal as well as instrumental; he published a booklet about the musical …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union … many liturgical works, in addition to other vocal and instrumental compositions. Ephros is mostly known for his …
Walter Zev Feldman
… University. Researcher on Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music, as well as the literature of the Ottoman and Central … research and published articles on classical and Sufi music in Turkey, the music and poetry of epic in Uzbekistan … the Ottoman Court: Makam,Composition, and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire was published in Berlin in 1996, and …
Don Harrán
… Artur Rubinstein Professor Emeritus of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Research interests: word-tone relations in music and theory from the Greeks to the seventeenth century; humanism and music; the Italian madrigal; instrumental music of the early Baroque; Jews as composers, …
Andre Hajdu
… after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. There he studied under Endre Szervánszky … (composition), Erno Szégedi (piano) and Zoltán Kodály (ethnomusicology). As a disciple of Kodály, Hajdu developed a deep … output orbited around Jewish themes. He composed many instrumental works in which he followed the romantic and …