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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 …
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 … and performance. He composed more than 80 works in his lifetime, the most noted of which are his violin sonatas and …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … melodies, Israeli folk songs and Chasidic dance and musical idioms. Lavry is recognized as one of the pioneers … as a conductor of the advancement of early musical life in Israel. … Composer & conductor … Composers … …
Nahum Nardi
… the Sephardic community, had a unique influence on Nardi's musical development. During their work together he arranged … 1949 the U.S. television network NBC aired a show about the life and work of Nardi. During the same year, Nardi composed … Eran Nardi, collected his artistic legacy which included musical scores, recordings, and other documents, and handed …