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Gideon Klein
… in Přerov (Moravia). At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in Prague, he supplemented his formal studies with private … Kurzova. In 1938, he enrolled at the Master School in Prague, studying piano and composition under Professor Vilém …
Hans Krása
… Hans Krása, composer, born November 30, 1899 in Prague . Krása began taking piano lessons at the school of … for him with the concertmaster of the German opera house in Prague . Krása’s father, a prosperous Czech lawyer, used his … vacations. Hans studied at the German Music Academy in Prague , after which he accepted a position as vocal coach …
Rafael Schächter
… his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in … Švenk, an actor, director, writer, and composer active in Prague before the war, Schächter produced the first all-male …
Egon Ledeč
… Eastern Bohemia ). Ledeč studied violin performance at the Prague Conservatory under teacher Otakar Ševečik. In 1908, …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… studied composition with Paul Hindemith, until he fled to Prague to seek refuge from German persecution. During the … friendship with Rabbi Lieben of the Old-New Synagogue in Prague . While in Prague , Schul discovered medieval manuscripts of Hebrew …
Karel Reiner
… studied law and musicology at the Charles University in Prague, and composition at the Master School under Josef Suk … 1943, Reiner worked for the Jewish Community office in Prague, organizing musical activities. Reiner’s … in Terezín to survive. After liberation, he returned to Prague to prepare a performance of Alois Hába’s opera, …
Karel Ančerl
… Karel Ančerl studied conducting and composition at the Prague Conservatory of Music. After graduating in 1929, … on to conduct the orchestra in the Liberated Theater in Prague and from 1933-1938, worked as a sound engineer and conductor at the State Radio in Prague. During his first year at the State Radio, Ančerl …
Richard Newman
… the son of Cantor Karl Neumann. He graduated from the Prague Conservatory and received a master's degree from the …
Solomon Lipschitz
… . Worked as cantor in various cities in Europe, including Prague and Frankfurt . Known for his volume Te'udat Shelomo …
Boaz Tarsi
… of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, the Prague Philharmonic orchestra and chorus, Gerard Schwartz, …