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Joseph Shlisky
Joseph Shlisky was born in Ostrowiec Voivodeship, Poland, around 1894. As a child, he…
Hans Krása
Hans Krása, composer, born November 30, 1899 in Prague. Krása began taking piano…
Rafael Schächter
Rafael Schächter was born May 27, 1905, in Braila (Rumania). After World War I,…
Yosef Hadar
Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his…
Pavel Haas
Pavel Haas was born in Brno (today in Czech Republic). He studied at the Brno…
Karel Ančerl
Karel Ančerl, conductor, born April 11, 1908 in Tučapy (Southern Bohemia). Karel Ančerl…
Nahum Heiman
Natan Yonatan, Nahum Heiman's friend and writing partner says about his friend (in the…
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Bienvenida "Berta" Aguado
Sephardic vocalist Bienvenida 'Berta' Aguado was born in Turkey in 1929, and immigrated…
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Just harmonizing in their own way': Change and reaction in Judeo-Spanish song.
The transplantation of traditional Sephardic songs to other contexts involves the…
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The Cantorial Fantasia Revisited: New Perspectives on an Ashkenazic Musical Genre
Based on MS sources of Maier Levi of Esslingen, Germany (1813–1874), the article…