Solomon Rosowsky

Rosowsky began to study music only after he graduated from the University of Kyiv, with a degree in law.

Together with the pianist Leonid Nesvishsky (Arie Abilea), the singer Joseph Tomars, the composer Lazare Saminsky, and several other musicians Rosowsky organized the Society for Jewish Folk Music in 1908.

Despite the enthusiastic work of the pioneers, the material living conditions in Palestine at that time were still extremely arduous.

His latter years he spent in New York, where he taught at the Cantors' Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary.

His magnum opus, "The Cantillation of the Bible: Five Books of Moses", was published in 1957.