(420 results found)
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. Idelsohn was … sing were of very mediocre musical value, although some expressed the Jewish sentiment. Soon the High-Holiday season …
Robert Lachmann
… It was there that Lachmann was first exposed to non-Western music and folklore, and he began working on transcriptions … the seeds for his doctorate research of North African music. After the war, Lachmann began to study musicology … , which was in print for three years until mounting pressures lead to the close of the center in 1935. In 1932, …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish ethnomusicology, and in particular in the development of … Centre. Throughout the 1960s, Levi also conducted an impressive amount of independent fieldwork, at times in …
Louis Lewandowski
… of celebrated hazzan Hirsch Weintraub , and was so impressed by his liturgical arrangements that he decided to … introduced a new romantic style heavily influenced by the music of Felix Mendelssohn. In 1871, Lewandowski published Kol Rinah U’Tfillah , a complete collection of music for Shabbat and Festivals. His seminal work, Todah …
David de Sola Pool
… of Shearith Israel, 1654-1954 , Columbia University Press, New York, 1955. Nima Adlerblum, “Reflections on the …
Alfred Sendrey
… Musician, conductor and musicologist Alfred Sendrey was born in 1884 in Budapest, Hungary. He received his formal musical education at the Academy of Music in Budapest. After … The manuscript was submitted to Columbia University Press in 1943, but its official publication was delayed …
Amnon Shiloah
… of Aliyat Hano’ar in northern Israel where he started his musical studies. In 1947 he enrolled at the Hebrew … as well as Bible, graduating in 1951. He continued his music studies at the Jerusalem Music Academy, majoring in … le-‘arav , vol. 4, edited by Joseph Tobi (Haifa University Press, 2008). … Israeli musicologist … 9415 … 11807 … …
Max Wohlberg
… melodies to liturgical texts. Wohlberg assembled an impressive collection of more than 2,000 manuscripts, books … Theological Seminary of America, Seminary College of Jewish Music, 1988. Price, Joseph. “Max Wohlberg: A Biographical Sketch.” Journal of Synagogue Music 7 (June 1977): 21-27. Wohlberg, Max. “Pirkei …
Amalia Kedem
… Amalia Kedem is the Music Curator and an archivist of the music collection at the National Library of Israel. She … and liturgical music (PhD) and the ways in which they express Israeli and Ashkenazi identity. She taught Jewish …
Eric Mandell
… Mandell passed away in Philadelphia on February 6, 1988. Musically gifted since his youth, he trained under prominent … scores (manuscript and printed) and books about Jewish music while writing for journals on Jewish music and music … to Catholicism. Both provided raw materials for Keller’s impressive 2006 volume Erich Mendel/Eric Mandell: zwei Leben …