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Samuel Benaroya
… http://www.sbhseattle.org/Bio-Rev_Benaroya.stm … One of the last singers of the Maftirim Choir of the city of Edirne (Turkey). … Samuel …
Mark Kopytman
… in composition (Moscow Conservatory, 1958), he taught at the Leningrad Conservatory before emigrating to Israel, where he has taught at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem since 1973. He established a … students have become well known composers and have chaired their own composition programs in universities in Israel and …
Yizhak Edel
… was born in Warsaw in 1896 to a Hassidic family. His grandfather, a Hassidic scholar, took responsibility for his … parents moved to Rovna, he went to live with his grandfather. In his grandfather’s house, Edel received a Jewish education, but he was …
Ya'akov Orland
… age five, he survived a pogrom in his hometown that claimed the lives of eight family members, after which his family … on Orland's work, inspiring his poem Kyiv. From Kyiv, the family crossed the Dnieper and Dniester rivers and … Haifa and began writing plays. His work Hai'r Hazot ("This City") was staged in 1953 at the Ohel Theater, and his play …
Joseph Achron
… . His musical genius became evident early on and at the age of five he began violin lessons with his father. Achron continued his formal musical education at St. … Leopold Auer, and composer Anatoly Lyadov. In 1908 together with Solomon Rosowsky , Mikhail Gnessin , Alexander …
Emanuel Aguilar
… Emanuel Aguilar, brother of author Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He … Aguilar is best known for his notation and arrangement of the Sephardic Liturgical music of Amsterdam, as sung by Aaron David de Sola. The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and …
Samuel Alman
… Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of the Russian army band based there. After the tragic pogrom in Kishinev , Alman moved to …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon , Poland , the eldest of four brothers who all perused careers in hazzanut. Koussevitsky was identified early on as a musical protégé and at the age of eight joined a synagogue choir in Smorgon under …
Alexander A. Krein
… Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 …
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
… in Novo-arkhangelsk , Ukraine, and was first exposed to the cantorial tradition through his involvement in the choir of a local synagogue. Kwartin went on to study … several communities in St. Petersburg, and also served at the Tabak Temple in Budapest . In 1919, he emigrated to the …