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David Aaron de Sola
… He wrote several books and essays. D.A. de Sola had a lifelong passion for music. In 1857, he published The …
Avraham Soltes
… in 1938. At CCNY began the interest which encompasses his life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… At this point, the music stopped being part of Stroumsa’s life, for the first time since his early childhood. This was …
Viktor Ullmann
… Stuttgart. In 1933, Ullmann returned to Prague and his life as a freelance musician. In addition to teaching and to … became one of the leading figures in the camp’s musical life. He was active in Terezín during a time when musical … light on the culture and participants of the musical life in Terezín. Ullmann’s light work load through the …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young yeshiva students, took a turn … a typesetter. At the same time, he started his copious and life-long journalistic work, eventually publishing articles … local unionist and political activist he moved into public life, in Jerusalem and on the national stage. Geshuri became …
Martin Ruhnke
… early baroque music, Italian baroque opera and the life and work of Georg Philipp Telemann. Full biography at …
David Nowakowsky
… Two volumes of Nowakowsky’s work were published in his lifetime under the title Shirei David ; one which included …
Kurt Weill
… is a museum and information centre about the life and work of Kurt Weill. For Kurt Weil's list of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… New York in 1903, where he spent the last five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish …
Yizhak Edel
… grandfather, his parents did not approve of Edel's musical life. After a short period in Rovna, Edel, eager to study … Under the pressures of the Bolshevik revolution and WWI, life in Kiev was hard, and Edel struggled to sustain … Palestine and settled in Tel Aviv. During his first year of life in Israel, Edel became acquainted with important …