Italy

The Abbina-Diena Collection

Eager to make better known the Italian Judaism and its musical traditions, Gianni Diena, from Turin, entrusted to the European Institute of Jewish Music several documents: CD’s, sheet music and …

Lidarti, Cristiano Giuseppe (1730-after 1793)

A composer born in Vienna who spent a large part of his life in Italy, Lidarti was the author of several Hebrew works, including the famous oratorio Ester, the longest and …

Baroque Jewish Music, 1st part

Listen to a selection of Jewish baroque music with works by Benedetto, Rossi, Grossi, Lidarti, Saladin and Caceres …

Baroque Jewish Music, 2nd part

Listen to a new selection of Jewish Baroque music with works by Rossi, Grossi, Saladin, Caceres and Lidarti …

Baroque Jewish Music

Unlike various popular beliefs, Jews from Italy, Provence or even Amsterdam had a perfect knowledge concerning Art Music in the Christian world. Young Italian Jews in the 15th century went …

Rossi, Salomone (Near 1570-Near 1630)

Salomone Rossi, or Shlomo Mi-ha-Adumim in Hebrew, came from an old Jewish family in Mantua, where he was born around 1570. Profiting from the tolerance granted to the Jews by …

Baroque Jewish music

MUSIQUES JUIVES D’HIER ET D’AUJOURD’HUI – TUESDAY NOVEMBER 22 2011, JUDAÏQUES FM, 21h05. Radio program in French   It’s in the 17th century that Jewish music start to be written …

Baroque Jewish Music – Venice, Mantua, Amsterdam (1623 – 1774)

MUSICAL HERITAGE OF THE JEWS FROM FRANCE COLLECTION, VOL. 10 Tribute to Israel Adler …

Salamone Rossi – Jewish musician in late renaissance Mantua

Oxford University Press – Oxford monographs on musicians, 29-07-1999, 334 p. …