Yehezkel Braun in Breslau, then-Germany, is an Israeli composer.

Biography

From the age of two, Braun, was brought up in Mandate Palestine in close contact with Jewish and East-Mediterranean traditional music. The influence of this background is clearly felt in his compositions.

He is a graduate of the Israel Academy of Music and holds a Master's degree in Classical Studies from Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University

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In 1975, he studied Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic liturgical music within Western Christianity that accompanied the celebration of Mass and other ritual services...

 with Dom Jean Claire at the Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 monastery of Solesmes in France

France

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. His main academic interests are traditional Jewish melodies and Gregorian chant. He lectured on these and other subjects, at universities and congresses in England

England

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, France, the United States

United States

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 and Germany

Germany

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. Yehezkel Braun is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University.

External links

• Yehezkel Braun official website