1/30 | Birthday of Isaak Dunayevsky
Today in Yiddishkayt… January 30 Birthday of Isaak Dunayevsky, Composer The popular Soviet composer Isaak Dunayevsky was born January 30, 1900 in the shtetl of Lokhvitza (today Лохвиця, Ukraine) not far from the provincial capital of Poltava. He entered the Kharkov Musical Conservatory in 1910 and had a rigorous classical training, studying violin under Josef Achron (who was interested in fusing Jewish musical elements into his compositions), and took musical theory with the musicologist and composer Semyon Bogatyrev. After graduating, he worked as a violinist and conductor...
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