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Hugo Adler
… as Jonah (1949). Adler replaced much of the 19th century liturgical music with new and modern musical settings. In 1942 he was … prize by the Central Conference of American Rabbis for his liturgical settings. Hugo Adler is the father of Samuel …
Naomi Cohn-Zentner
… Cohn Zentner is an assistant professor in the Department of Music at Bar Ilan University. She was formerly the head of the M.A. program in Jewish music at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies. Her … and the cross-fertilization of Ashkenazi and Sephardi liturgical traditions. Source: The Trustees of the …
Emanuel Aguilar
… Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He received his musical education in Piano Performance and Composition in … three symphonies, three cantatas and a number of chamber music and solo piano works. Aguilar is best known for his notation and arrangement of the Sephardic Liturgical music of Amsterdam, as sung by Aaron David de …
Samuel Alman
… Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a … in Kishinev , Alman moved to London where he continued his musical studies at the Royal College of Music. There he … 1925 he published Synagogue Compositions, a collection of liturgical arrangements for Sabbath and weekday services. In …
Alexander A. Krein
… other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 he began his formal musical … and recitative rhythms found in Eastern European liturgical music to imbue his compositions with a uniquely …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and … kind to be produced and performed in Israel and made use of liturgical melodies, Israeli folk songs and Chasidic dance …
Myer Leoni
… Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England . In 1767 he … he held until his death in 1796. Several of Leoni’s liturgical compositions are included in Aaron Beer’s collection of cantorial music, the best known being Leoni's arrangement of Yigdal , …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … became increasingly interested in the collection of Jewish music, and in 1923 was commissioned by the Jewish community … on the 'Music and the Holocaust' website. … German poet & liturgical musicologist … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Mordekhai Seter
… occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … as a 10-year old child, and at 16 he went to further his musical education in Europe (Paris, 1932-1937, studying with … composers of that time, however, he preferred the use of liturgical tunes over folk ones (hence he did not work with …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… his father Aba Pilderwasser. Weisser began his formal musical education with the local hazzan of Novata Ushitsa, … Melodies, and a plethora of articles dealing with Jewish liturgical music and the American cantorate. Weisser passed … … Cantor … Composer … Teacher … Liturgical … Hassidic … Melodies … Secular … Music … Joshua …