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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, …

Federico Consolo
… – Libro dei Canti d'Israele (1892), a work containing traditional tunes of the Sephardic Jews of Italy. Source: … - Judezmo ,Judeo-Spanish … Cantorate … Hazzan … Violin music … Liturgical music … Italian music … Ladino … Sephardi music … Liturgy … …
Haim Effendi
… In spite of his unparalleled fame as a singer and musician during his lifetime, very few details about the … in the history of the Judeo-Spanish speaking Jews. The old traditional Ottoman Jewish community ruled by rabbinical … scholars) of the impact that modern technology had on the traditional Sephardi music in the past half century or so …
Ram Da-Oz
… and lost his eyesight. Afterward he continued to study music, including piano, oboe, theory and composition, and graduated from the Israel Academy of Music, Tel Aviv (1953). Da-Oz has written Israeli Art Music, … techniques of atonality and free tonality in addition to traditional styles, using some Sephardic melodies for his …
Rahamim Amar
… lived in the city for twenty generations. He started his music career as a trumpet player in the British Police Band, … After his release from the police, he began to play other musical instruments, especially plucked string instruments, … from Egypt, Amar leaned more towards an original and yet traditional Sephardic melos that also incorporated modern …
Salah El Kuweiti
… 17. He played violin, sang, composed, and achieved great musical fame in Iraq together with his brother, Daoud, who … preferred Iraqi style. He was very important to Baghdadi musical life – headed the Iraqi broadcasting channel … Maqam Rast for Orchestra (Innovative version of traditional Iraqi maqam performed by orchestra without …