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Rafael Schächter
Rafael Schächter was born May 27, 1905, in Braila (Rumania). After World War I,…
Mikhail Gnesin
Gnesin was born in Rostov-on-Don, son to the local Rabbi. He began his musical…
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco received his formal musical education at the Istituto Musicale…
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), composer,…
Gustav Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in Kalischt, Bohemia but spent most of his childhood in Iglau,…
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Myer Leoni
Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England. In 1767 he took a…
Emanuel Aguilar
Emanuel Aguilar, brother of author Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He…
Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his…
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Viktor Ullmann. A brief biography and appreciation
Born in Jan. 1898 in Teschen, Czechoslovakia, Ullmann studied in Vienna; in 1918-19, he…
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The Burgschaft debate and the timeless of the untimely
Nazi critics of “Die Burgschaft” ignored or were unaware that the source of Herder's…