Kosakoff, Reuven
Kosakoff, Reuven
Kosakoff, Reuven, American pianist and composer; b. New Haven, Conn., Jan. 8, 1898; d. N.Y., May 6, 1987. He studied at Yale Univ. and at the Juilliard School of Music in N.Y., then went to Berlin as a private piano student of Artur Schnabel. He wrote severa biblical cantatas; 2 Sabbath services, Piano Concerto on Hebrew themes (Pittsburgh, March 24, 1941), and Jack and the Beanstalk for Narrator and Orch. (New Haven, April 22, 1944).
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