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Jan Radzynski
… (1985). According to Yuval Shaked, [1] Radzynski's compositions merge musical elements of the Jewish Eastern European cantorate, …
Shelomo Zalman Rivlin
… cantor choir that was established by Rivlin. Through his compositions published in his Shirei Shlomo , he tried to create a musical style that fuses the European and the Oriental …
Karel Salmon
… Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Salmon studied composition with Richard Strauss at the Berlin Academy of … He immigrated to Palestine in 1933, and was the first musical director of the Palestine Broadcasting Service … Salmon often used themes related to Judaism in his compositions, such as his opera for puppets, David …
Edwin Seroussi
… started there his music studies (violin, theory and composition). He immigrated to Israel in 1971 where he … Prof. Seroussi’s research focuses on the sacred and secular musical cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, … and the role of reception and consumption in the making of musical cultures. He has published extensively on these …
Israel Adler
… de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and musical studies. During his thirteen-year sojourn in Paris … 19th century, published a few years later as La pratique musicale savante dans quelques communautés juives en Europe … oral traditions became more formalized and static, while compositions conceived as “art” works became traditionalized …
Israel Alter
… music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and composition, including Cantor Yehuda Leib Miller . At the … both emotional and intellectual elements in his compositions. Alter composed cantorial works and musical settings to Yiddish poems. His collections of …
Moses Beregovski
… accentuation and cantillation). Beregovski began his formal musical education at the Kiev and Leningrad conservatories where he studied composition with Shteinberg and Yavorsky. In 1917 he was recruited to catalogue and analyze the musical material from An-Ski’s second ethnographical …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… director at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in NYC. As musical director, he introduced a number of important … of Rinnat Shabbat crystallized Binder’s signature compositional style, using the cantillation of Shir Hashirim (Song of Songs) as its musical base. He continued composing services for use at …
Abraham Baer
… of hymns made up primarily of Salomon Sulzer’s liturgical compositions and arrangements. Abraham Baer's magnum opus … und Gebräuchen . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer … European cantorial circles, the reliance on a written musical text by their American progenies was certainly more …
Abraham Eilam-Amzallag
… Aviv. He studied playing the flute with Uri Toeplitz and composition with Leon Shidelovsky. He composed many works … and musicology at universities in Israel. Amzallag-Eilam's musical style combine Eastern Melos with Western … the Israeli Andalusian Orchestra and served as its musical director and chief conductor for nine years from its …