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Don Harrán
… madrigal; instrumental music of the early Baroque; Jews as composers, musicians, and music theorists in fifteenth- to seventeenth-century Italy; early Jewish women as poets and singers; the beginnings of Hebrew …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Latvia (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He … Idelsohn was greatly impacted by the diversity of the Jewish community living in Palestine, and embarked on a … by the people. It has no art-song, and no individual composers. 3) Composers of Jewish origin have in their …
Eric Werner
… (1934-1938). Immigrated to the U.S. in 1938. Began teaching Jewish music and liturgy at the Hebrew Union College in … research, Werner has conducted research in the field of Jewish music, on topics such as comparative Jewish-Christian music, Jewish composers, Ashkenazi liturgy, and more. His compositions …
Joel Engel
… music editor, a member of the St. Petersburg School of Jewish composers, and one of the founders of the Society for Jewish Folk Music … Joel Engel …
Aron Marko Rothmüller
… collection is located at the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and can accessed … and historical information on Rothmüller and his important Jewish cultural organization, Omanut based in Zagreb, and … of Israel holds correspondence by Rothmüller with Israeli composers Alexander Uriah Boscovich and Marc Lavry showing …
Joachim Stutschewsky
… and writer, a founder of the Society for the Development of Jewish Music in Vienna, and a cellist in the famous Viennese … Immediately after immigration, he encouraged Israeli composers to write music based on Jewish heritage. As for himself, he favored Ashkenazi, …
James Loeffler
… (1996); Founding Director, Vice-academic co-chair, Jewish Music Forum of the American Society for Jewish Music (New York); Research Director, Pro Musica … interests: History of Jewish art music; Russian Jewish composers; music in Yiddish culture; history of klezmer …
Samuel Adler
… abroad. (According to: 'Samuel Adler' in Milken Archive of Jewish Music. For the full biography click here ) … … Composer … Conductor … Author … Jewish music … Cantor … American composers … Samuel Adler …
Nissan Cohen-Melamed
… to visit the various synagogues in his area and listen to Jewish cantillation. After some time he began singing with … Cohen Melamed is considered to be one of the early known composers of Mizrachi music (Muzika Mizrachit), before it …
Joseph Dorfman
… as artistic director of the International Festivals of Jewish Art Music, initiated in 1992. As a composer, … works, cantatas and oratorios. Dorfman researched the Jewish musical tradition of Eastern Europe, focusing on the … Music . As part of his research, he found lost works of composers of this society. His interest in Jewish music …