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Samuel Alman
… Alman was born in Sobolevka, Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a … in Kishinev , Alman moved to London where he continued his musical studies at the Royal College of Music. There he focused on opera composition, and debuted …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… in hazzanut. Koussevitsky was identified early on as a musical protégé and at the age of eight joined a synagogue …
Alexander A. Krein
… other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 he began his formal musical education at the Moscow Conservatory, where he …
Marc Lavry
… Marc Lavry was born in Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories … Lavry was also a prolific composer of Israeli art music, with a large corpus of oratorios, chamber and orchestral works, popular songs, and theater music. Perhaps his most well known piece, one which typified …
Myer Leoni
… Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England . In 1767 he … are included in Aaron Beer’s collection of cantorial music, the best known being Leoni's arrangement of Yigdal , …
Israel Lovy
… . In 1799, Lovy settled in Fürth were he continued his musical and secular education, becoming accomplished in …
Gustav Mahler
… German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano with teacher Julius … gained momentum, and in 1883 he was appointed the Royal Musical and Choral Director of Kassel , a position he held …
Pinhas Minkowski
… tradition with his father, and supplemented his basic musical education by joining the choir of Cantor Nissan … Jewish Conservatory and was the chairman of the Ha-Zamir musical society, under whose auspices he published several articles on the topics of Jewish music and hazzanut. The majority of Minkowski’s compositions …
Arno Nadel
… Arno Nadel was born in Vilna, Lithuania and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard … became increasingly interested in the collection of Jewish music, and in 1923 was commissioned by the Jewish community of Berlin to compile an anthology of Synagogue music. Nadel completed the project in 1938 and intended to …
Nahum Nardi
… he studied at the Warsaw Conservatory and at the Vienna Music Academy, graduating in 1922. Following his graduation, … performing, combining his classical repertoire with folk music, such as Russian folksongs, Hassidic music and Hebrew songs. In addition to giving concerts, he …