# Israel Amidan

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{{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](/source/musician) and [composer](/source/composer).

==Biography==
Amidan was born in [Transylvania](/source/Transylvania), [Romania](/source/Romania) on April 9, 1921. He was a child when his parents moved to [Mandatory Palestine](/source/Mandatory_Palestine) and participated in establishing a [moshav](/source/moshav) now called [Kfar Gidon](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Tel-Aviv), Israel and was buried in the [southern cemetery, Israel](/source/southern_cemetery%2C_Israel).

==See also==
*[Jewish music](/source/Jewish_music)
*[List of Jewish musicians](/source/List_of_Jewish_musicians)
*[Music of Israel](/source/Music_of_Israel)

== References ==
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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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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

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