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Samuel Naumbourg
… in Dennelohe, Bavaria, groomed from a young age to continue the long line of professional hazzanim in his family. He … synagogue choir. Naumbourg’s early appointments included a cantorial post in Besançon and a position as choirmaster of the Synagogue in Strasburg. In 1845 Naumbourg was invited to …
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 … he worked as a professor of Jewish music at the Schola Cantorum, and finally in 1961 was appointed the director of …
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 …
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
… Cantor and composer. Born in Ukraine . Studied music in … Odessa and St. Petersburg . In 1887 began officiating as cantor in Rostov , and stayed there for 25 years. Known for his two volume collection of …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had rabbinical roots. After establishing himself with …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, … building a cast of performers, recruiting actors, singers, cantors, and wandering minstrels to be involved in the …
Hugo Adler
… Hugo Adler was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He sang in the choir of Yossele Roenblatt in Hamburg, officiated as cantor in the Haupt-Synagoge in Mannheim, Germany (1921-1939), and …
Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, featured in Polin , The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , … such as Yiddish carnivalesque, folk theater melodies, cantorial improvisation, and the legacy of M. Beregovski’s …
Amit Klein
… from Bar-Ilan University, primarily focusing on Ashkenazi Cantorial recitatives and performance practice. He has … Agenda, Carlebach Nusah vs. Cantorial Recitatives, and the performance styles of 20th-century cantorial recitatives. His paper on the Musical Supplication in the Golden Age of Ashkenazi …
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 … . Alman was deeply influenced by the Eastern European cantorial tradition, specifically by the work of hazzanim …