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Gideon Klein
… At the age of twelve, Klein moved to Prague to study music and liberal arts at the Jirasek Gymnasium. While in … Kurz. That same year, he began a double-degree program in musicology and philosophy at the Karl University. In the … Klein composed folk songs in Czech, Slovak, Hebrew, and Russian. Since procuring scores in the ghetto was very …
Rafael Schächter
… War I, Schächter moved to Brno, where he began his formal musical studies. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory of Music, where he received degrees in composition and … opportune; he arranged Czech, Slovak, Hebrew and even Russian folk songs for Schächter's expanding choral group …
Mordekhai Zeira
… born in Kiev, Russia, in 1905. Although he was born to a musical family, his musical education consisted mostly of a … was 'full of Jews who could sing a Hassidic Niggun and sing Russian Zionist songs,' [1] as explained by Zeira when asked … fact his songs were based on three elements: 1. Melodies of Russian revolutionary songs; 2. Russian romances that he …
Avraham Slep
… It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education. Slep began his career as a singing … a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the teacher … Source: 'Avram Sliep ' at Yiddish Music Website (in Russian). … Conductor & music educator … 0 … Vilna … Ghetto …
Richard Newman
… and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1937 he emigrated with his family to the United … Army and Fought in Europe. After the war, he directed the musical education program for the allied forces in the … 'Richard Jacob Neumann ' at Yiddish Music Website (in Russian). See also the list of Richard Jacob Neumann's …
Joseph Schillinger
… Joseph Schillinger was a composer, music theorist, and composition teacher who originated the Schillinger System of Musical Composition. He was born in Kharkiv, in the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) and died in New York …
Alexander Olshanetsky
… Russia and Siberia, and later was the choral director for a Russian operetta company. He stayed in Kharbin (today in … in Liebe, 1929. … Composer & conductor of Yiddish theater music … Composers … Composer … Conductor … Yiddish … Theater … Music … Opera … Alexander Olshanetsky …
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 … together with the harsh events in Ukraine (WWI, Pogroms, Russian revolution) compelled Walbe to immigrate to …
Zalmen Mlotek
… Zalmen Mlotek is an American conductor, pianist, musical arranger, accompanist, composer, and the Artistic … recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the Jewish theatre and concert … classics, instituted bi-lingual simultaneous English and Russian supertitles at all performances and brought leading …
Harry Kandel
… and bandleader, one of the pioneers of modern klezmer music. He ran an orchestra which consisted of a variety of … in Swing'. Kandel studied at the Odessa Conservatory of Music and served in army band of the Russian czar, moving to New York in 1905. He first worked on …