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Pinhas Minkowski
… tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan Spivak . Minkowski took over Spivak’s post at the Choral Synagogue in Kishnev at the young age of eighteen. He … Jewish Conservatory and was the chairman of the Ha-Zamir musical society, under whose auspices he published several …
Nissan Blumenthal
… the first Chor-Schul in Odessa where he developed choral singing for four voices. Influenced by his study of German classical music, he adapted melodies from the composers, Handel, … deep knowledge of classical harmony, counterpoint, and choral arrangement helped to propel the use of choir music …
Michele Bolaffi
… Michele Bolaffi was a distinguished musician and composer active in Livorno in the early 19th century. His tenure as musical director of the Great Synagogue of Livorno can be considered a turning point in the development of choral and instrumental music for use in the Italian …
Isaac Schlossberg
… (also known as Leibke Aluxter) were cantors. He studied music and the basics of hazzanut in Vilna under the … for the first time conducted the Grand Choir of the Vilna Choral Synagogue. Later he entered the Warsaw Conservatory. In 1899, together with Leo Liov, he wrote music for a play based on Joseph Lateiner's play ' Khurban …
David Beyglman
… Ostrowiec (Kielce province of Poland). Beyglman began his musical education at a young age, studying several … early years of the war and of ghetto life, and new forms of musical and theatrical expression were adapted to the harsh … years of the war, the ghetto's Symphony Orchestra, the Lodz Choral Society Hazamir and the Revue Theater gave regular …
Max Helfman
… Max Helfman was a Polish-born American Jewish composer, choral conductor, pianist, singer, and educator. He had a long career arranging both secular and religious Jewish music and was considered to have a gift for writing music … Source: " Max Helfman " in Wikipedia. … Composer, choral conductor & educator … Yiddish songs … Communism … …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague … singing in the barracks. By 1942, Schächter's organized choral activities began to take shape. In collaboration with … the influx of musical prisoners to Terezín, Schächter's choral activities grew in scope and in quality. The arrival …
Pavel Haas
… in his father's business until 1935, when he began teaching music theory, and later music. Haas began composing while … on Chinese Poetry (1944). His list of compositions includes choral and vocal works, incidental music, orchestral and … music of Janacek, Moravian folksong, Jewish chant, Medieval Chorale, Western European contemporary music, and Jazz. [2] …
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 … … 631 … Composer, Choral Conductor and Collector of Jewish Chants … Italian … …
Moses Michail Milner (Melnikoff)
… He sang with famous cantors in Kiev, later studying music in Kiev and in St. Petersburg, where he participated in the founding of the Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908). He composed many works based on Jewish themes, … liturgical works. Apart from Jewish music, Milner wrote choral and orchestral works, operas, piano pieces, songs and …