MA A Y ANI

INTRODUCTION
closely associated with the Old Hebrew language, since the time
of the Old Testament through the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Jewish
Poets of the ‘Golden Age’ of Spain and the Modern Hebrew, revived
in Israel more than a hundred years ago. His music includes
the Yiddish, Ladino and Aramaic languages used by Jews in the
Diaspora.
Most of Maayani’s music has been recorded and released in sixteen
CDs by FONS Music Foundation.
Maayani is also the author of a monumental and exhaustive mongraph
on Richard Wagner (in three volumes) and on The Music of
the Ancient Nations and The Music in Plato’s Dialogues, the only
major contributions to these subjects to appear in the Hebrew language.
FONS Music Foundation is preparing the publication of his
autobiography.
July 2009
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