Mordecai Seter
Mordecai Seter ( he, מרדכי סתר, February 26, 1916 – August 8, 1994), was a Russian-born Israeli composer. Early life Seter was born Marc Starominsky in Novorossiysk, Russia, in 1916 and Aliyah, emigrated with his family to Mandatory Palestine, Mandate Palestine in 1926.Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume 14 (1972) Seter learned to play the piano from the age of seven in Russia, and continued with his lessons and studies in Tel Aviv. In 1932, he went to Paris, France, where he studied composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique with Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger. He also had some lessons with Igor Stravinsky, Stravinsky. With Boulanger, Seter mastered Renaissance polyphony and contemporary French style, but in 1937, frustrated by the extent of her devotion to Stravinskian neoclassicism, he returned to Palestine.Ronit Seter, "Mordecai Seter," in Oxford Music Online, accessed 15 February 2016 There, he pursued a musical language founded on his own unique synthesis of the latter, ...
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