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Israel Alter
… family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and composition, including Cantor Yehuda Leib Miller . At the age of 20, he began serving as the cantor of the Brigittenauer Synagogue in Vienna. In 1925, he …
Abraham Wolf Binder
… Abraham Binder was born in New York to a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and … and in 1948 helped to found its School of Sacred Music . … Cantor & teacher … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – Cantors,Cantors – …
Eduard Birnbaum
… In 1872, he received an offer to officiate as the cantor for the Magdeburg community, where he served for two years. In 1874, he moved on to a position as the chief cantor in Beuthen, taking a short two month break between … 1879, Birnbaum replaced Zvi Hirsch Weintraub as the chief cantor of Koenigsberg, a position he held until his death in …
Abraham Baer
… Abraham Baer was born in Wielen , Poland . He worked as a cantor and teacher in several communities throughout western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg Synagogue in Sweden in 1857. During … entire Jewish calendar year. This major anthology by Baer, cantor in Göthenburg, Sweden (where he served from 1857 …
Mordechai Breuer
… Adat Yisrael congregation in Frankfurt am Main, poetry and cantorship occupied a significant place. As a musical child, … members had arranged rehearsals and classes. The chief cantor was Peshowitz and he affectionately called Mordechai, … an orderly pursuit of music. For many years he served as a cantor at the Horev Synagogue in Rehavia in Jerusalem. Over …
Gershon Ephros
… Cantor and composer. Gershon Ephros was born in Serotsk, … he was ten, and Ephros moved to live with his grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical … and Joseph Achron in New York. In 1918, he was appointed cantor of Congregation Beth El in Norfolk, Virginia, and …
Andre Hajdu
… and arranger. Or Haganuz , a collection of lieder for cantor and piano based on traditional pieces of Ashkenazi hazzanut and Yiddish songs, performed by cantor Asher Hainovitz with Hajdu on the piano, was launched …
Aron Friedmann
… In 1901, he published Shir li-Shelomoh , a collection of cantorial music in traditional style for the prayers of the … containing biographies of 19th century hazzanim . … Cantor … Aron Friedmann …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued his education at the Stern Conservatory … in Berlin and at the Leipzig Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat Jeshurun Synagogue in Leipzig, and in … in Jerusalem in 1906. In Jerusalem, he began working as a cantor and music teacher at the Hebrew Teacher’s college. …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… serving as a well-regarded hazzan, choirmaster, and cantorial pedagogue. There he also began his life’s work notating the great heritage of Eastern European cantorial tradition, transcribing and publishing the cantorial compositions of his teachers Cantors Joshua Lind …