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Martin Ruhnke
… Martin Ruhnke was a German musicologist. His main areas of research were … the music theory of early baroque music, Italian baroque opera and the life and work of Georg Philipp Telemann. Full biography at Wikipedia. … German musicologist … Musicologist … Baroque … Germany … …
Samuel Naumbourg
… re-released in 1864. Though Naumbourg comes from the South German tradition, a large percentage of his arrangements mimic the style of Parisian grand opera, a genre that was a pervasive force in the cultural … Agudat Shirim, which combined pieces from the South German tradition with melodies from the Western Sephardi …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had … himself with several satirical and surrealistic operas, he became famous with playwright Bertold Brecht … works were classified as degenerate. In 1933, Weill left Germany for France, however after a short stay there he …
Gustav Mahler
… (in present-day Czech Republic) surrounded by a flourishing German-speaking Jewish community. Mahler's formal musical … more prestigious institution that staged both theater and Opera. Beginning in 1882, Mahler took several temporary … an invitation to work as the Director of the Vienna Court Opera, a post that cemented his reputation as one of the …
Josef Tal (Gruenthal)
… Josef Tal (b. Pine, Germany 1910 - Jerusalem 2008, immigrated in 1934), … that is based on folklore, and (implicitly) supporting German hegemony in music. Tal’s works, mostly atonal and … of Tal’s over 100 works are orchestral and stage works (operas, oratorios). Only a dozen of his works that he …
Michele Bolaffi
… as the musical director to the Duke of Cambridge; toured in Germany with singer Angelica Catalani; and was in the … synagogue. Bolafi also composed secular music, including an opera Saul, a Misere for three voices and orchestra (1802), …
Mikhail Gnesin
… School . After a tenure of ten years, Gnesin traveled to Germany to help found the Jibneh music publishing house … distinguished work from his “Jewish” period includes: the operas, The Youth of Abraham (1921-23) and The Maccabees …
Jacques Offenbach
… career as a cello virtuoso, traveling throughout France and Germany and performing with noted musicians and composers … acclaim, particularly in Vienna, where his romantic opera Die Rheinnixen was performed at the Hofoper Theater … his efforts were focused on finishing the score for his opera Les contes d’Hoffmann. Offenbach died in October of …
Joseph Shlisky
… were typic. To showcase his vocal versatility, he performed operatic arias from a variety of schools—Italian, Russian, and German. He also performed his signature rendition of … . Shlisky was signed up to appear with the San Carlo Opera Company but, like many other outstanding hazzanim. …
Hans Krása
… and arranged lessons for him with the concertmaster of the German opera house in Prague . Krása’s father, a prosperous Czech … often spent their summer vacations. Hans studied at the German Music Academy in Prague , after which he accepted a …