Italy
27/04/2026
Bolaffi, Michele (1768-1842)
Michele Bolaffi (Florence 1768-Livorno 1842) was a Florentine composer of Sephardic Jewish descent. A man of broad cultural interests, his activities spanned music, literature, teaching, and music theory. He was a talented singer (tenor), poet, literary figure, translator of Hebrew texts …
26/04/2026
Jewish Baroque Music
Recorded in 2008 by the Salomone Rossi Ensemble, this CD features 20 iconic pieces of Baroque Jewish music by Salomone Rossi, Carlo Grossi, Avraham Caceres, Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, and Georg Friedrich Händel …
24/04/2026
Ensemble Salomone Rossi
(Italy) The Ensemble Salomone Rossi was founded by violinist Lydia Cevidalli in 1991, with the aim of exploring the theme of the Jewish presence, and its contribution, in Western musical culture …
17/10/2023
Jewish Italian Music
This well-documented site provides access to hundreds of online documents (audios, scores, photos...) that testify to the rich heritage of Italian Jewish music …
16/10/2023
Inventory of Italian Jewish musical archives
As part of the European Jewish Music Network program initiated by the IEMJ, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane - UCEI) has launched in 2022-2023 a registry of Italian Jewish music archives …
13/10/2023
The Music of the Jews in Italy: A Short Introduction
The history of Jewish music in Italy is long, fascinating, and filled with contradictions. Length is due to the very history of Italian Jewry, whose origins go back more than …
19/04/2022
Canti del Tempio Maggiore di Roma
This two-volume study by Pasquale Troìa, with contributions by Alberto Funaro, Claudio Di Segni and Angelo Spizzichino, presents for the first time the musical manuscripts of the Historical Archives of the Jewish Community of Rome …
18/04/2022
Piattelli, Elio (1910-2001)
Born in Rome on May 30, 1910, Elio Piattelli graduated in 1931 from the University of Rome with a degree in Literature with the highest mark of “110 out of …
18/02/2021
Esther, a Purim oratorio by the composer Lidarti (1730- ap. 1793)
Rediscovered in 1997, the score of the oratorio Ester (1774) by the composer Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti is to this day the longest and richest work of all Hebrew art music …
20/01/2021
Shabbat songs in the Italian rites
A selection of Italian Shabbat songs (Roman, Sefardic and Provencal rites…) performed by Albert Funaro, Gadiel Liscia, Bruno Polacco, David Prato... …