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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 … kind to be produced and performed in Israel and made use of liturgical melodies, Israeli folk songs and Chasidic dance …
Myer Leoni
… Myer Leoni began his musical career as an opera singer in England . In 1767 he … he held until his death in 1796. Several of Leoni’s liturgical compositions are included in Aaron Beer’s collection of cantorial music, the best known being Leoni's arrangement of Yigdal , …
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 … on the 'Music and the Holocaust' website. … German poet & liturgical musicologist … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
Mordekhai Seter
… occasions, was chosen to conclude the first Israeli Music Celebration (September 1998; an annual festival … as a 10-year old child, and at 16 he went to further his musical education in Europe (Paris, 1932-1937, studying with … composers of that time, however, he preferred the use of liturgical tunes over folk ones (hence he did not work with …
Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)
… his father Aba Pilderwasser. Weisser began his formal musical education with the local hazzan of Novata Ushitsa, … Melodies, and a plethora of articles dealing with Jewish liturgical music and the American cantorate. Weisser passed … … Composers … Hasidic … Cantor … Composer … Teacher … Liturgical … Hassidic … Melodies … Secular … Music … Joshua …
Yeruham Blindman
… his improvisatory vocal style. Although he only had a basic musical education, he composed many arrangements for liturgical music using melodies from Jewish folk songs. … Cantor & …
Nissan Blumenthal
… four voices. Influenced by his study of German classical music, he adapted melodies from the composers, Handel, … Haydn, Cherubini, and Mendelssohn in his arrangements of liturgical music. In 1870 he hired David Nowakowsky as choir-leader, …
Mordekhai Hershman
… El Temple, he continued to appear in concerts of classical music, record commercial records and tour throughout … of the socialist Worker’s Union, advertised morning liturgical services at the Ohel Shem theater led by the … abilities and lustrous voice to sing and record fine liturgical recitatives by a variety of composers. Many of …
Israel Meyer Japhet
… his death in 1892. Japhet composed a large body of Jewish liturgical music for use in his Synagogue. His arrangements were …
Pinhas Jassinowsky
… of Kiev , Ukraine . Jassinowsky’s first exposure to Jewish liturgical music was as a choirboy under director Pinhas Minkowski in … concerts. Jassinowsky was also a prolific composer of liturgical and Yiddish folk music. His most well known …