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Frederick Piket
… Frederick Piket was born in Hungary, and received his formal musical education in Europe. He was a successful secular … for several decades before turning to synagogue music composition. Piket spent his childhood and early career in … States in 1940, at the age of 37. His interest in synagogue composition began after taking a position as an organist and …
Julius Chajes
… Julius Isserlis, Mr. and Mrs. Moriz Rosenthal. He studied composition under Hugo Kauder. At the age of 15, Chajes … music. In the wake of this research and due to the local musical influences he was exposed to, Chajes transformed his style of composition and became known as one of the foremost …
Lazare Saminsky
… was born in Vale-Gotzulovo[-Hatzulovo], Ukraine. He studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory (1906-1910). … cantillations, prayer chants, melodies, and other sacred musical traditions of the Georgian and Persian Jews in … in the U.S. He settled in New York in 1924, and became the musical director of the reform congregation of Temple …
Gideon Klein
… enrolled at the Master School in Prague, studying piano and composition under Professor Vilém Kurz. That same year, he … in 1944, Klein remained one of the core figures in the musical life of the ghetto. Although basic resources such as … Klein immediately recognized the potential to continue musical activity despite the hardships of imprisonment and …
Hans Krása
… arrange professional performances of some of Hans’ earliest compositions. When Hans wrote his first orchestral work at … 10, 1942 and quickly became one of the key figures in the musical life of the camp. Krása’s most important musical contribution by far was his children’s opera …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in composition and conducting, and at the Master School, in … the lack of resources (i.e. instruments and scores), early musical activity took the form of communal singing in the …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… on January 11, 1916 in Kassell , Germany . Schul studied composition with Paul Hindemith, until he fled to Prague to … This discovery sparked Schul's interest in Jewish musical themes, which he began to incorporate into his … the Holocaust' website. … Jewish German composer, active musically in Theresienstadt … Composer … Jewish … Themes … …
Yosef Hadar
… Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were … contribution to Israeli folk song as a composer and as a musical educator. The award was granted to him by the Center … the Lutheranian Church in northern Europe. Some of Hadar's compositions have become established folk songs and …
Pavel Haas
… criticism, he only gave opus numbers to eighteen of his compositions, which he wrote prior to his deportation, in … (1943) and Four Songs on Chinese Poetry (1944). His list of compositions includes choral and vocal works, incidental … . [2] Lubomír Peduzzi, Ibid. … Composer, active in the musical life of Theresienstadt (Terezín) … Pavel Haas …
Karel Reiner
… law and musicology at the Charles University in Prague, and composition at the Master School under Josef Suk and Alois … for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical activities. Reiner’s compositional output during … Esta gramophone company. Reiner was a leading figure in the musical life of Terezín. He was primarily involved in …