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Meir Shimon Geshuri
… 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli researcher of Jewish music with emphasis on the study of Hassidic music … as a scholar is still a major gap in the historiography of Jewish music. Born in Myslowitz, Upper Silesia, then part of … discuss two types of sources: the niggunim themselves and texts concerning niggun, or in his words, “ideas, exempla, …
Fritz Rikko
… most closely associated was Salamone Rossi . Rossi was a Jewish composer and instrumentalist who was active in Mantua … (Song of Solomon), a setting of Hebrew sacred songs and texts, and he also completed the thematic index to the …
Leon Algazi
… Paris , a position he held for many years. His interest in Jewish music and folklore was sparked by early studies with … radio program that dealt with a wide range of topics in Jewish music. In 1937 he took a position as the conductor at … an important collection of Sephardic folk songs and texts, Chants Séphardis , under the auspices of the World …
Michael Lukin
… Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and obtained the MA in Jewish Music at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his … of Yiddish folk singing – its main genres, performance contexts, interrelations with the neighboring traditions – as … end of the nineteenth century. He is a researcher at the Jewish Music Research Centre (JMRC) and a lecturer at Bar …
Yizhak Edel
… grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while … He also became acquainted with the works of the Society for Jewish folk Music which were based mainly in St. Petersburg … Many of these songs are 'children's songs' set to the texts of Hebrew poets, particularly Bialik. Edel has …
Alexander A. Krein
… Moscow in 1883. He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a … Ravel and Debussy. Krein’s first composition in the Jewish national style was Jewish Sketches , after which he … a large collection of romances and songs set to the texts of famous Russian and European poets such as Balmont, …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… until his death in 1892. Japhet composed a large body of Jewish liturgical music for use in his Synagogue. His … hymns. He also published a wide range of instructive texts on Hebrew grammar, and on the correct cantillation of … German tradition. The most known and widely used of these texts were: Metek Sefatayi ; Hebraeische Sprachlehre …
Moshe Wilensky
… returned to Warsaw. In his youth, Wilensky attended the Jewish " Eskela " Gymnasium, which offered Hebrew … stage. He also composed music for films produced by the Jewish National Fund ('Hakeren Hakayemet') and for "Yomani … Wilensky retired from radio in 1978. Wilensky composed texts by renowned poets, bringing unique sensitivity to each …
Elio Piattelli
… from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for … of the oral traditions of cantors from the various Italian Jewish rites and traditions. Piattelli transcribed not only … Italian Jewish communities. He transliterated the Hebrew texts of the songs in Latin characters with a very simple …
Haim Effendi
… Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical authority was shattered … French), to liberal trends in Judaism (especially to Jewish nationalism or Zionism) and to subversive political … “composed.” By composition, we mean the setting of original texts in Judeo-Spanish to extant melodies of well-known …