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