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Walter Salmen
… was born in 1926, in Paderborn, Germany. His career as a musicologist began after studying musicology, history, philosophy, composition, and organ at the University of Heidelberg, at the church music institute there, and after completing his …
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 … Catalani; and was in the service if Louis XVIII as a church musician in France. Many of his synagogue …
Yosef Hadar
… Yosef Hadar was born in Tel Aviv in 1926 to a musical family. His mother Yafa and his father Yehiel were … Emanuel Amiran-Pugatchov brought Hadar to the College for Music Educators (Midrasha Lemichanchim Lemusica), which was … in the Christian prayer as Hymn No. 15 in the Lutheranian Church in northern Europe. Some of Hadar's compositions have …
Joel Walbe
… his business and his way of life. He rejected young Joel's musical interests, and considered the study of music and literature to be a foreign influence. Though … secretly in the attic, and by listening to organ music in church services. His first practical encounter with music …
Yinam Leef
… A selection from his biography on the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance website: 'President of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Yinam Leef (Born in Jerusalem in 1953) is … Jewish prayers, the chant of the Moazzin and the Old City's church bells. His first published composition, Gilgulim …
James W. McKinnon
… James William McKinnon was an American musicologist most known for his work in the fields of … also studied organ with Frederick Swann and was active as a church organist and choir director in New York throughout … the history of plainchant from the Patristics (Early Church Fathers) to the Carolingian period. He also edited …