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Samuel Alman
… Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a … quickly, and he was hired to lead several other local Jewish choirs in London . Alman was deeply influenced by the … Nisson Spivak and Solomon Sulzer. He made use of elaborate modern harmony in his arrangements, evoking the …
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 well known Klezmer musician … there, and he became a prominent figure in the school of modern Russian composition. Krein’s early work was deeply …
Gustav Mahler
… Czech Republic) surrounded by a flourishing German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music … to emulate that style in his own writing while using a modernist approach. Though Mahler made several attempts at …
Yehuda Sharett (Shertok)
… (for which he won the Engel prize ) , a piece combining Jewish tradition with modern musical elements. Also known for composing poems of various …
Mordekhai Hershman
… in New York City at Tomashevsky’s Theatre appeared in The Jewish Daily News of February 20, 1920. The enthusiastic … El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … have become classics and are frequently performed by modern Chazanim. Eilu Devarim , Shma Koleinu and Aneinu are …
Max Helfman
… Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and … a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music … that was both singable and emotionally complex, which was modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and …
Neil Levin
… and academic life to the scholarly study of the music of Jewish experience from historical, musicological, … cantorial art, Yiddish and Hebrew folksong, the music of modern Israel, and music of American Jewish experience. He …
Issachar Miron-Michrovsky
… by Ascap Today as, 'a major force in today's liturgical music.' Issachar Miron has made a name for himself … the first Nazi death camp of the “final solution of the Jewish question.” Their holy remains were buried in the … Miron's works: Syncopated Preludes and Passacaglia for Moderns , highly commended by Artur Rubinstein, and recorded …
Elio Piattelli
… from the oral traditions of the various rites of the Roman Jewish community as well as original compositions for … from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … with a very simple method that takes into account the modern Sephardi pronunciation of Hebrew practiced in Israel. …
Moses Michail Milner (Melnikoff)
… He sang with famous cantors in Kiev, later studying music in Kiev and in St. Petersburg, where he participated in the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908). He composed many works based on … USA, 2007. 257-258. Further reading: Weisser Albert. The Modern Renaissance of Jewish Music . Miller, B, F. Mikhail …