(213 results found)
Walter Salmen
… socio-historical perspective. He is one of the ancestors of musical iconography, one of the founding members of the RIdIM (Répertoire International d'Iconographie musicale) research group, of which he was elected an … in 2012, and of dance studies. His publications on the life and work of the last conductor, King Friedrich II of …
Milan Slavicky
… Czech composer, musicologist, and pedagogue. He came from a musical family. His father Klement Slavický and both his … the House of Artists (1990) and Gideon Klein: a Fragment of Life and Work (1995). He died in 2009 in Prague. Source: ' …
Avraham Soltes
… in 1938. At CCNY began the interest which encompasses his life: Judica; the struggle in Palestine to forge an Israel; … the threads of Israeli history and culture with its musical heritage and that of Judaism at large. He had an … to his insistent efforts as a Rabbi to integrate new musical elements into the service. It applied, finally, to …
Jacques (Yaakov) Stroumsa
… a talented milliner. The oldest of four children, he showed musical talent at a young age. After completing secondary … while simultaneously taking violin lessons at the Lycée Musicale. Upon finishing that program, he moved to Paris, … At this point, the music stopped being part of Stroumsa’s life, for the first time since his early childhood. This was …
Viktor Ullmann
… the fall of 1927, Ullmann took a short-term engagement as musical director in Usti nad Labem (now Aussig). After one … anthroposophy movement, and subsequently ceased all musical activity for two years in order to run the … Stuttgart. In 1933, Ullmann returned to Prague and his life as a freelance musician. In addition to teaching and to …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… childhood in the all-Christian Dańdówka in terms of extreme musical isolation and alienation. Hendel-Malka, Geshuri’s … De-Lita in Yiddish). However, Geshuri’s life, as those of many young yeshiva students, took a turn … Hassidic music later in his life. At the same time, his musical education in Berlin and Dresden opened before him …
David Nowakowsky
… poem Tikvateinu for the Fifth Zionist Conference. His musical arrangment of the poem was later replaced by a … Two volumes of Nowakowsky’s work were published in his lifetime under the title Shirei David ; one which included …
Kurt Weill
… figures of the Broadway stage and began to write musicals that enjoyed tremendous popularity. Weill held the … is a museum and information centre about the life and work of Kurt Weill. For Kurt Weil's list of …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Jewish and secular music. The initial performances of these musical theater pieces created movement to establish a … finally Bar Kochba (1883). Although Goldfaden had no formal musical education, he arranged the majority of the music for … New York in 1903, where he spent the last five years of his life involved in promoting the growing culture of Yiddish …
Yizhak Edel
… Like his grandfather, his parents did not approve of Edel's musical life. After a short period in Rovna, Edel, eager to study … arts. In 1922, Edel returned to Warsaw and completed his musical studies between 1922-1927. He studied theory and …