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Albert Elias
… Baghdad Elias studied law as well as the nay with a Syrian teacher. He played with some of the greatest stars of Iraqi music, including Nazem al-Ghazali, Salima Morad, Muhammed … Iraqi maqam and the more widespread Egyptian style of tarab music, which he greatly enjoyed. He also studied law for two …
Esther Sheinberg
… is an independent scholar. Her fields of research include Music signification, Irony and ambiguity in music, Humor in Music, the Music of Dmitrii Shostakovich, … levels, and had presented several workshops for music teachers in primary and secondary education in Israel. … …
Yizhak Edel
… received a Jewish education, but he was also exposed to music while participating in singing gatherings hosted by … His grandfather did not approve of Edel's new path as a musician, but he ultimately gave in. Upon his grandfather’s … poems. After this period, Edel started working in Levinsky Teachers Seminary, where he would remain for 26 years, from …
Gil Aldema
… Conducting and Composition at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, and continued his studies at Mannes College of Music, New York. During the 1950's Aldema served as a teacher and a music counselor in the village, Hadassim. From …
Ernest Bloch
… He studied at the Conservatory in Brussels under noted teachers Eugene Ysaye and Francois Rasse, later moving on to … United States in 1916, and in 1920 was appointed the first Musical Director of the fledgling Cleveland Institute of Music, a position he held until 1925. Bloch’s early works, …
Joseph Achron
… was born in Lozdzieje, a small village in Lithuania . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of … violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. Petersburg Conservatory where he … Manual of Harmony” (1930) strengthened his reputation as a teacher of music theory. Andre Previn, renown composer, …
Yedidyah Admon
… Palestine in 1906 and received his formal education at the Teacher's Seminary in Jerusalem under musicologist Abraham Zvi Idelsohn. From 1923 to 1927 Admon studied Music Theory and Composition in the United States. Upon his …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories under teachers Scherchen and Glazunov. Lavry’s early career … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and …
Gustav Mahler
… German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius Epstein, and harmony and composition with …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … cantorial student. In 1895 Nadel enrolled in the Jewish Teacher’s Institute in Berlin, and upon graduation settled … became increasingly interested in the collection of Jewish music, and in 1923 was commissioned by the Jewish community …