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Rahamim Amar
… lived in the city for twenty generations. He started his music career as a trumpet player in the British Police Band, … activities: composition, choral conducting (including in synagogues) and education. Most of his compositions are … tradition in which he was brought up in the Sephardic synagogues of Jerusalem’s Old City with current trends of …
Marcus Hast
… . One of the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration with the … Hast claims to have published the first volume of Ashkenazi Synagogue music in England (the very first of all, [David …
Leon Kornitzer
… in 1939, he worked as choir conductor in the Central Synagogue in Haifa. A full biography of Kornitzer in … . Tina Frühauf: Leon Kornitzer, in: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era , Claudia Maurer Zenck, Peter … from 1937 describes the collection of Jewish liturgical music found at the then relatively new Jewish National and …
Solomon Lipschitz
… . Known for his volume Te'udat Shelomo which contains synagogue musical practices of his time and personal reminiscences. … …
Max Löwenstamm
… Munich (1847-1881). Wrote many choral compositions for the synagogue. Source: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music . … Cantor and composer … Hazzanut,Hazzanim – …
David Menahem
… absorbed the 'Yerushalmi cantorial tradition' in the Ades Synagogue . As a child, he studied at a Talmud Torah and … Moshe Havusha , taught him the secrets of the Arab Maqam musical system and Arabic musical instruments. Since childhood, along with pursuing …
Zalman Polak
… in Jerusalem. 1921: Invited to serve as cantor in The Great Synagogue, (Beit ha-Knesset ha-Gadol) of Rishon LeZion. … to Israel. 1934-1948: Served as cantor in many various synagogues throughout Israel. 1937: Was involved for many … and dictating 'nosachim.' 1960: The Institute of Sacred Music reported in the news regarding his institute for …
Fabian Ogutsch
… and choir, published ' Der Frankfurter Kantor ' containing synagogue melodies of the Frankfurt tradition. Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music (Macy Nulman), Daat website ( …
Boruch Leib Rosowsky
… Born in Naliboki, Vilna, served as cantor in the Great Synagogue of Riga and was a very popular cantor of his time. Rosowsky composed several works for the synagogue, the most important of which was Schirei Thefiloh . Sources: Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music , geoffreyshisler.com . … Cantor and composer … …
Shelomo Zalman Rivlin
… where he officiated as cantor at the Shirat Israel Synagogue for 60 years. He trained many of today's notable … published in his Shirei Shlomo , he tried to create a musical style that fuses the European and the Oriental …