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Isaac Offenbach
… He left his hometown in 1799 to travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der … folders of cantorial compositions and transcriptions of traditional synagogue melodies. His manuscripts were donated … with a German translation, an appendix of original and traditional melodies (1838), and a Hebrew-German youth …
Edward Stark
… years with his brothers in the clothing business, pursuing musical activities in his free time. In April of 1884, Stark … of 1885 traveled to Vienna and to Leipzig to study music formally. In 1891, Stark accepted his first official … in Europe . Stark advocated for the preservation of traditional nusach in the American Reform service. Most of …
Joseph Shlisky
… a means of support. Shlisky never heard a note of Western music until his rise, but joined the Toronto Waves … and left it after a short time. He never thought about a musical career until, one day, he was singing at his sewing … may have been folk songs, Shlisky was also known to perform traditional hazzanut songs on the concert stage, including …
Gideon Klein
… At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in … Kurz. That same year, he began a double-degree program in musicology and philosophy at the Karl University. In the … of varied styles and sources including Moravian folklore, traditional Hebrew melodies, and the work of composers Leos …
Max Helfman
… a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music that was both singable and emotionally complex, which was modern and original and yet rooted in traditional folk and synagogue melodies. Among his best …
Elio Piattelli
… from the University of Rome in 1931, he pursued his innate musicality studying in Rome with Maestro Cesare Dobici … is a first attempt to locate, catalog and analyze his musical compositions and other of his scholarly interests … but above all to allow young cantors to learn those traditional songs and thus enhance the cultural, liturgical …
Bienvenida "Berta" Aguado
… Büyükada , where Aguado became well-known as a kantadera (traditional singer), and her vocal performances were highly … Tikva, where she continued to share her rich Sephardic musical heritage. Berta Aguado made significant contributions to the study of Ladino music through the many recordings and interviews conducted …
Moshe Nathanson
… in Jerusalem in 1899. Until age 10, Nathanson attended a traditional heder (all-boys religious school) in the old … Nathanson immigrated to Canada, where he studied Law and Music at McGill University. Mid-degree, Nathanson decided to transfer to the Institute of Musical Art in New York (now the Julliard School of Music). …
Paul Ben-Haim
… The most prolific of the founding fathers of Israeli music (excluding, perhaps , Marc Lavry ), he wrote over 250 … and other works. His eloquent use of these and other traditional tunes, based on French manifestations of … his colleague Peter Gradenwitz (his publisher, well-known musicologist). Among Ben-Haim’s other notable works are his …
Mickey Katz
… Meyer Myron 'Mickey' Katz was an American musician and comedian who specialized in Jewish humor. Katz … is most well known for his parodies, but he created more traditional klezmer music as well. Although he was primarily a jazz musician, …