Salamone Rossi - Harran, Don (Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology, Artur Rubinstein Professor of Musicology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem)

Salamone Rossi (c.1570-c.1627) is the earliest outstanding Jewish composer to work in the European art music tradition - no others of his caliber are to be found until the 19th century. In his life and works, Rossi moved between two worlds: the court and the Jewish community in late Renaissance Mantua.