Hanina Karchevsky
Hanina Karchevsky (died 20 December 1925, age 49), was a Jewish composer, conductor and music teacher who became an important figure in the establishment of the Music of Israel, musical culture of the pre-state Yishuv and of Israel. Biography Karchevsky was born in 1877 in :ru:Петровка (Тарутинский район), Petrovka, a village in Russian Empire, Russian-ruled Bessarabia. He moved with his parents to the nearby town of Bender, Moldova, Bender, where he studied Torah. At the same time, he learned piano and notation with his teacher, who was also a cantor (''hazzan)'' where he was heard by the well-known cantor Zeidel Rovner, who convinced his parents to move to Kishinev, so the child could join the synagogue's choir. At the age of 22, he moved to Warsaw, where he conducted an army orchestra. As a supporter of Zionism, he aliyah, immigrated to the Land of Israel in 1908, during the Second Aliyah. He taught music there in several institutes, among them the Her ...
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