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Emanuel Aguilar
… Emanuel Aguilar, brother of author Grace Aguilar, was born in London in 1824. He … Aguilar is best known for his notation and arrangement of the Sephardic Liturgical music of Amsterdam, as sung by Aaron David de Sola. The Ancient Melodies of the Liturgy of the Spanish and …
Samuel Alman
… Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of the Russian army band based there. After the tragic pogrom in Kishinev , Alman moved to …
Aaron Beer
… Bavaria in 1739. He held his first cantorial post at the Paderborn congregation. Beer was known for the extraordinarily wide range of his tenor voice. At the age of 26 he moved on to the position of head hazzan of …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon , Poland , the eldest of four brothers who all perused careers in hazzanut. Koussevitsky was identified early on as a musical protégé and at the age of eight joined a synagogue choir in Smorgon under …
Alexander A. Krein
… Alexander Krein was born in the Staraya Ruza region of Moscow in 1883. He and his five other siblings were taught Jewish folk and instrumental music by his father who was a well known Klezmer musician and poet. In 1908 …
Zawel (Zevulun) Kwartin
… in Novo-arkhangelsk , Ukraine, and was first exposed to the cantorial tradition through his involvement in the choir of a local synagogue. Kwartin went on to study … several communities in St. Petersburg, and also served at the Tabak Temple in Budapest . In 1919, he emigrated to the …
Marc Lavry
… Riga , Latvia and received his formal musical education at the Riga and Leipzig conservatories under teachers Scherchen … conducting posts in Riga and Saarbrucken and a position as the director of the Laban Dance Ensemble in Berlin. In 1929, Lavry was hired …
Myer Leoni
… singer in England . In 1767 he took a position as cantor of the Great Synagogue in London , but continued performing in Operas, providing they didn’t conflict with his Synagogue duties. Leoni, along … difficulties only ran for a short time. In 1787, Leoni left the Great Synagogue and moved to Jamaica where he was hired …
Israel Lovy
… Jewish education at a Yeshiva in Glogau, where his father officiated as a hazzan. From a young age, Lovy traveled … and London before finally settling in Paris in 1818 as the chief hazzan for the newly formed Reform Synagogue, Rue Notre Dame de …
Gustav Mahler
… Mahler's formal musical education began in 1875 at the Conservatory of Music in Vienna where he studied piano … Fuchs and Franz Krenn. After completing his studies at the Vienna Conservatory and at Vienna University , Mahler … received his first conducting position at Bad Hall, a small theater south of Linz in Austria . A year later, Mahler …