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Abraham Baer
… western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg Synagogue in Sweden in 1857. During his tenure there, along … . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which …
Mordechai Breuer
… from Germany. In 1942, Breuer studied in a course for music teachers at the Jerusalem Conservatory and received a … development. Mordechai Breuer's Musical Education: In the synagogue of the Kahal Adat Yisrael congregation in … learned a lot there. There was a regular choir in the synagogue and the conductor, Max Neumann, who was also a …
Gershon Ephros
… grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical training while being part of his grandfather's … 1957. Apart fom his cantorial career, Ephros taught Jewish music in Hebrew schools in New York and at the Hebrew Union … Cantorial Anthology , a five-volume collection of synagogue compositions for cantor and choir, for the entire …
Alberto Hemsi
… Born in Kasaba, Turkey. Studied music in Izmir, and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). …
Aron Friedmann
… in Berlin and in 1882 was appointed chief hazzan of the Old Synagogue of the Berlin community, a post he held until … he published Shir li-Shelomoh , a collection of cantorial music in traditional style for the prayers of the year. He …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… (former Kurland or Courland) and began his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued … Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat Jeshurun Synagogue in Leipzig, and in Regensburg and Johannesburg, … Zalman Schochet, though very old, or Orkin of the Zamet Synagogue. Little did I realize that Rabinovitz will later …
Eric Karsenti
… at the Ministry of Health. Research interests in Jewish music: the musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of synagogue music from nineteenth-century Italy. … Researcher …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a mainstay of Jewish music in mid-twentieth century Chicago, serving as a … he began his lifelong engagement with Western music theory, completing a doctorate at Northwestern … volume, The Musical Tradition of The Eastern European Synagogue , conceived as a five-volume, twenty-book treatise …
Leo Levi
… first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his role in the field of Jewish … interests. His plan to devote a dissertation to the Italian synagogue song was frustrated by the rise of Fascism and … contacted almost fifty informants, professional hazzanim (synagogue cantors) and other culture-bearers. In over eighty …
Salomon Sulzer
… and was later appointed cantor at the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue in Vienna, where he stayed for fifty-five years. … appreciated beyond the Jewish community. As a composer and musician, Sulzer is considered by some as the father of … modern cantorate. This is a result of his attempt to reform synagogue music by purifying existing melodies, and …