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Nahum Nardi

… is based on a melody of a Sephardic Romance . And other works, such as: 24 variations for orchestra ; Suite for …

Sholom Secunda

… their members could collect royalties for their original works. In the summer of 1937, Sholom decided to try his luck …

… his colleagues—an advantage that was evident in his vocal works. Seter taught at the Tel-Aviv Conservatory and Academy … uncommon admiration among his fellow composers. Seter’s works from his early and middle periods, 1940-1968, share … served as his core pitch material for 35 of his 46 late works. Each mode comprises an aggregate ranging between …

Wolf Shestapol

… Kherson and was a prolific composer, producing many popular works. His works were strongly influenced by European art music to …

Gershon Sirota

… and recording. Although he never composed original works, Sirota became known worldwide for his dizzying vocal …

Josef Tal (Gruenthal)

… and (implicitly) supporting German hegemony in music. Tal’s works, mostly atonal and serial, expressionist and … he did use some local and Mizrahi melodies in his works at a time when that Zeitgeist was at its peak in the … also studied with Hindemith). Almost half of Tal’s over 100 works are orchestral and stage works (operas, oratorios). …

Joshua Weisser (Pilderwasser)

… talent, and he incorporated many of his original works into his services. In 1914, at the onset of WWI, he …

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

… of the young musician through regular performances of his works. In 1931 Jascha Heifitz commissioned … composing art music, producing a corpus of 70 orchestral works and several Operas, including The Merchant of Venice …

Mikhail Gnesin

… use of Jewish folk melodies as the thematic base for his works. Gnesin commented on his use of Jewish musical idioms, … to look for a Jewish style, those elements appeared in my works.” Some of the most distinguished work from his … Abraham (1921-23) and The Maccabees (1921); the symphonic works, Songs from the Old Country (1919) and The Jewish …