Music of Israel The music of Israel is a unique combination of Jewish and non-Jewish music traditions that have come together over the course of a century to create a distinctive musical culture. For more than 100 years, musicians have sought original stylistic elements that would define the emerging national spirit. Music_of_Israel
List of German Jews The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germay came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards. List_of_German_Jews
Gary Bertini Gary Bertini (1 May 1927 18 March 2005) was an Israeli conductor.Gary Bertini was born Shloyme Golergant in Bricheva, Bessarabia, then in Romania, now in Moldova. His father, K. A. Bertini (Arn Golergant), was a poet and translator of the Russian (Leonid Andereyev) and Yiddish (A.Sutzkever, H. Gary_Bertini
Ödön Pártos Ödön Pártos עֵדֶן פרטוש (Eden Partosh)October 1, 1907 – July 6, 1977), was a Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer. A recipient of the Israel Prize, he taught and served as director of the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv.Partos was born in Budapest, Hungary (at that time, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Ödön_Pártos
Ben-Zion Orgad Ben-Zion Orgad (Hebrew בן ציון אורגד , b. Gelsenkirchen, Germany, 21 August, 1926; d. Tel Aviv, Israel, 28 April, 2006) was an Israeli composer. His original last name was Büschel. His family emigrated to Palestine in 1933, where he started violin lessons in 1936. Ben-Zion_Orgad
Tzvi Avni Tzvi Avni (; born Hermann Jakob Steinke in Saarbrücken, Germany, 1927; first name sometimes spelled Zvi) is an Israeli composer. He emigrated to Palestine as a child and studied with Paul Ben-Haim.On the recommendation of Edgard Varèse, he became involved at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the 1960s. Later he founded an electronic studio at the Jerusalem Academy of Music, following the guidelines of his mentor in New York, Vladimir Ussachevsky. Tzvi_Avni
Joachim Stutschewsky Joachim-Yehoyachin Stutschewsky, יהויכין סטוצ'בסקי, Иоахим Стучевский (February 7, 1891, Romni (Romny), guberniya of Poltava, Ukraine - November 14, 1982, Tel Aviv, Israel) was a Ukraine-born Austrian and Israeli cellist, composer, musicologist.His father, Kalmen-Leyb Stutschewsky was a clarinetist ().In Hebrew, his name is not paralleled with "Jehoiakim (יְהוֹיָקִים yəhôyāqīm). Joachim_Stutschewsky
Erich Walter Sternberg Erich Walter Sternberg (אריך ולטר-שטרנברג, May 31, 1891, Berlin Tel Aviv) was a German-born Israeli composer. One of the founders of Israeli art music, Sternberg had a profound impact on the musical life of Palestine and Israel during the 1930s and 1940s. Erich_Walter_Sternberg
Haim Alexander Haim Alexander (born August 9, 1915; Berlin) is a German-born composer who has lived in Israel since 1936. He studied composition with Irma and Stefan Wolpe before graduating from the Jerusalem Academy of Music in 1945. He has won the Engel Prize, the Israeli Music Institute Prize and the ACUM prize. Haim_Alexander
Josef Tal Josef Tal, born Joseph Grünthal (September 18 1910 August 25 2008) was an Israeli composer. Josef_Tal
Abel Ehrlich Abel Ehrlich (1915–October 30, 2003) was an Israeli composer notable for winning the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers and the Israel Prize for Music.Erlich was born in 1915 in Cranz, East Prussia and died on October 30, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Abel_Ehrlich
Verdina Shlonsky Verdina Shlonsky (January 22, 1905, Kremenchuk, Ukraine – February 20, 1990, Tel Aviv) was an Israeli composer, pianist, and piano teacher, often described as the leading female Israeli composer of her time.Shlonsky studied piano in Berlin with Egon Petri and Arthur Schnabel, and composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, Edgard Varèse and Max Deutsch. Verdina_Shlonsky
Marc Lavry Marc Lavry () (December 22, 1903, Riga – March 24, 1967, Haifa) was an Israeli composer and conductor. Lavry began his musical studies in Riga and continued at Leipzig conservatory. He also studied with Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer and music teacher. Marc_Lavry