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Fritz Rikko
… musicologist and conductor who was an authority on music of the Baroque era. Born in Werden, Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1941 and founded the Collegium Musicum of New York in 1951. The early music …
Moritz Deutsch
… however that brought him to Vienna to study music and the cantorial tradition. In 1842 Deutsch was appointed assistant Cantor under Salomon Sulzer at the Liberal temple in Vienna. Deutsch was deeply influenced … cantorial recitative style and liturgical arrangements for the choir. In 1844 Deutsch began working as chief cantor at …
Manfred Lemm
… Manfred Lemm was born on April 17, 1946 in Potsdam . In the 1960s he moved with a band through Germany, Austria and … studied composition. In 1976, he opened in Wuppertal the first cabaret theater. In the 80s he founded the Manfred Lemm Ensemble and …
Leib Glanz
… Leib Glanz was born in Kiev in 1898. His father was the cantor at the Synagogue of the Talna Hasidim and at a young age, Leib …
Molly Picon
… A full biography available at the Jewish Women's Archive website: click here … Yiddish …
Isaac Nathan
… journalist and self-publicist, who has been called the "father of Australian music". For full biography, see: … http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020245b.htm . (*The photo was taken from Wikipedia) … Composer … Isaac Nathan …
Samuel Naumbourg
… in Dennelohe, Bavaria, groomed from a young age to continue the long line of professional hazzanim in his family. He … cantorial post in Besançon and a position as choirmaster of the Synagogue in Strasburg. In 1845 Naumbourg was invited to officiate as hazzan of the Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth Synagogue in Paris, and was …
Leon Algazi
… He studied music in Vienna and Paris and graduated from the Ecole Rabbinique in France . His first teaching post was at the Ecole de Liturgie et de Pedagogie in Paris , a position … Abraham Zvi Idelsohn . One of his first projects in the field was a nationally aired radio program that dealt …
Sigmund Schlesinger
… Sigmund Schlesinger was one of the most influential figures among the group of mid- to late-19th-century American synagogue … attempted to create and adapt music to suit the new ritual and format of American Reform congregations — …
David Nowakowsky
… to Berditchev where he was recruited as a choirboy for the local choral Synagogue. While in Berditchev, Nowakowsky learned harmony and counterpoint and studied the cantorial tradition from noted cantors Yeruham Hokoton … and as assistant to hazzan Nissan Blumenthal at the Brody Synagogue in Odessa. Nowakowsky was deeply …