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Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … development. Mordechai Breuer's Musical Education: In the synagogue of the Kahal Adat Yisrael congregation in … learned a lot there. There was a regular choir in the synagogue and the conductor, Max Neumann, who was also a …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union … Cantorial Anthology , a five-volume collection of synagogue compositions for cantor and choir, for the entire …
Alberto Hemsi
… Born in Kasaba, Turkey. Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). …
Aron Friedmann
… in Berlin and in 1882 was appointed chief hazzan of the Old Synagogue of the Berlin community, a post he held until … he published Shir li-Shelomoh , a collection of cantorial music in traditional style for the prayers of the year. He …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat Jeshurun Synagogue in Leipzig, and in Regensburg and Johannesburg, … Zalman Schochet, though very old, or Orkin of the Zamet Synagogue. Little did I realize that Rabinovitz will later …
Eric Karsenti
… at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of synagogue music from nineteenth-century Italy. … Researcher …
Sholom Kalib
… Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. He worked as cantor and conductor of Synagogue choirs. As a composer, he wrote music for Sabbath and High Holiday services and wrote … Full biography see at the Milken archive of Jewish Music website . *The photo was taken from the Milken archive …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish … interests. His plan to devote a dissertation to the Italian synagogue song was frustrated by the rise of Fascism and … contacted almost fifty informants, professional hazzanim (synagogue cantors) and other culture-bearers. In over eighty …
Salomon Sulzer
… and was later appointed cantor at the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue in Vienna, where he stayed for fifty-five years. … appreciated beyond the Jewish community. As a composer and musician, Sulzer is considered by some as the father of … modern cantorate. This is a result of his attempt to reform synagogue music by purifying existing melodies, and …
Francesco Spagnolo
… and Theories of Quotation between W. Allen and S. Sontag . Music BA from the Conservatorio di Musica 'Giuseppe Verdi,' Milan (1987), with the Honor's Thesis Jews, Memory and the Present. Synagogue Song in the Works of E. Bloch, D. Milhaud and A. …