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David Aaron de Sola
David Aaron De Sola was descended from a distinguished family of Sephardim, who…
Meir Shimon Geshuri
Meir Shimon Geshuri (née Bruckner; April 19, 1897 - December 9, 1977) was an Israeli…
Yeruham Blindman
Yeruham Blindman served as a cantor in Kishnev, Tarnopol and Berdichev. By 1834 he was…
Elio Piattelli
Biography by Pasquale Troia
Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in…
Marcus Hast
Born in Praga (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved…
Eric Werner
Born in Ludenberg (near Vienna).
Studied music and religion in several cities in…
Musical Notations of Zemirot (Sabbath Table Songs) in an Eighteenth Century Manuscript at the Prague National Library
The article describes a manuscript from the Birnbaum Collection which may date from…
The Cantorial Fantasia of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Late Manifestation of the Musical Trope
Western Ashkenazi cantors have developed a new soloist style of liturgically important…