Former Music Director and Producer for Voice of Israel in Arabic, composer, and conductor. Immigrated to Israel 1951. Initiated innovative recordings and performances within the Israel Broadcasting Authority framework.
See his biography in The Scribe.
See Yitzhak Aviezer’s YouTube channel for several recordings of his compositions:
Directed by Philo Bregstein
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Documents the controversial career of conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler, who chose to remain in Germany and work with the Nazi Party throughout the war despite his open criticism of the regime. Details his complex relationship with Jewish musicians. Includes photographs and important documents from his life.
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Illustrates how Nazi officials used economic and professional incentives to persuade artists - including musicians, composers, and conductors - to support the regime. Includes and extensive bibliography and an index.
Retrieved from: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Research: Bibliographies Traces the life of Herbert Zipper, a Viennese conductor and composer sent to Dachau in 1938. Describes his efforts to create a secret orchestra in the camp, his transfer to Buchenwald, and his eventual release in 1939.
The story of Vienna-born Herbert Zipper, a conductor in Austria and Germany, who survived the concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald to become a famous music educator in the United States.
Richard Jacob Newman is a composer, arranger, conductor, and teacher. Neumann was born on January 20, 1915 in the Ukraine, the son of Cantor Karl Neumann.
He graduated from the Prague Conservatory and received a master's degree from the Vienna Academy of Music.
Avraham Slep, composer, teacher, conductor, and arranger, was born in 1884. It is not known where he was born or where he received his musical education.
Slep began his career as a singing teacher at the Vilna Jewish School. There he conducted a choir that brought him professional fame.
In the mid-20s, Slep became a professor of solfege at the Vilna Institute of Jewish Music, among whose teachers was Eliyahu Malkin, the teacher of Yasha Heifetz.
Samuel Adler was born in Mannheim, Germany (1928). His father was Hugo Chaim Adler, a cantor and composer. The family came to the United States in 1939, where Hugo became the cantor of Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts. There the young Samuel Adler displayed his musical talents at an early age. He became his father’s choir director when he was only thirteen and remained at that post until he began his university studies.
