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Fritz Rikko
Fritz Rikko was a musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the…
Manfred Lemm
Manfred Lemm was born on April 17, 1946 in Potsdam. In the 1960s he moved with a band…
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Sigmund Schlesinger
Sigmund Schlesinger was one of the most influential figures among the group of mid- to…
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn, New York, to parents of Lithuanian Jewish descent…
Ya'akov Orland
Yaacob Orland was born in 1914 in Tetiev, Ukraine, to Eliezer and Batya Orland. In 1919…
Ernest Bloch
Swiss born American Composer Ernest Bloch was born on July 24, 1880 in Geneva,…
Moshe Koussevitsky
Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon, Poland, the eldest of four brothers who all…
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Myer Leoni
Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England. In 1767 he took a…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
Nahum Nardi
Nahum Nardi was born Nahum Narodietzky in 1901 to a religious-Zionist family in Kiev,…