{{Short description|Israeli-Romanian musician and composer}} '''Israel Amidan''' (born Wettenstein) ({{Langx|he|ישראל עמידן}}; April 9, 1921 – 1968)<ref>[http://www.imi.org.il/Composer.aspx?id=2be8045f-82c3-42a0-a2d7-5cede14d381f&Lang=E Israeli Music Institute] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325101647/http://www.imi.org.il/Composer.aspx?id=2be8045f-82c3-42a0-a2d7-5cede14d381f&Lang=E |date=2012-03-25 }} Retrieved 2011-09-02</ref> was a musician and composer.
==Biography== Amidan was born in Transylvania, Romania on April 9, 1921. He was a child when his parents moved to Mandatory Palestine and participated in establishing a moshav now called Kfar Gidon or Gideon.<ref>[https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0012_0_10959.html Encyclopaedia Judaica & American-Israeli cooperative enterprise{© 2008}] Retrieved 2011-09-02</ref><ref>[http://israel-amidan.com/heb/frameEN.html Biographical information and information about works] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331144132/http://israel-amidan.com/heb/frameEN.html |date=2012-03-31 }} Retrieved 2011-09-02</ref> He taught at the Tel Aviv music academy; violinist Yair Kless was a notable student.<ref>[https://music.umn.edu/events/bravo_yair-kless the University of Minnesota School of Mu8sic website] Retrieved 2011-09-02</ref><ref>[http://rncm.ac.uk/meet-our-staff-mainmenu-51.html?view=item&catid=428%3Aschool-of-strings&id=91%3Ayair-kless website of ''The Royal Northern College of Music'' ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011140229/http://rncm.ac.uk/meet-our-staff-mainmenu-51.html?view=item&catid=428%3Aschool-of-strings&id=91%3Ayair-kless |date=2011-10-11 }} Retrieved 2011-09-02</ref>
''Beginners' steps. 50 Hebrew songs transcribed for violin'' was published in 1965 <ref>[http://www.imi.org.il/Instrumentations.aspx?CatID=d647eb1a-2070-4110-b13d-7d5814a43b06&PublicationID=2 Israeli Music Institute-Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325101919/http://www.imi.org.il/Instrumentations.aspx?CatID=d647eb1a-2070-4110-b13d-7d5814a43b06&PublicationID=2 |date=2012-03-25 }} Retrieved 2011-09-02</ref>
Amidan died in 1968 in Tel-Aviv, Israel and was buried in the southern cemetery, Israel.
==See also== *Jewish music *List of Jewish musicians *Music of Israel
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==External links== * [http://israel-amidan.com/heb/frameEN.html Amidan archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331144132/http://israel-amidan.com/heb/frameEN.html |date=2012-03-31 }}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Amidan, Israel}} Category:1921 births Category:1968 deaths Category:People from Transylvania Category:Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent Category:20th-century Israeli male musicians Category:Romanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Category:Burials at South Cemetery in Israel