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Aaron Beer
… was born in Bamberg, 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 …
Moshe Koussevitsky
… Moshe Koussevitsky was born in Smorgon , Poland , the eldest of four brothers who all perused careers in hazzanut. Koussevitsky was … his Jewish and secular education. He received his first cantorial post at the Great Synagogue of Vilna. In 1924, …
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 …
Myer Leoni
… an opera 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 …
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 … Chants religieux pour les prieres hebraique . … Cantor & composer … Hazan, Chazzan, Chazzanut, Hazzanut, …
Pinhas Minkowski
… Minkokwski was born in Belaya Tserkov, Ukraine, where his father officiated as a cantor. Minkowski studied the cantorial tradition with his father, and supplemented …
Arno Nadel
… and began his Jewish musical education in Koenigsberg under cantor Eduard Birnbaum , first as a participant in his all boy-choir, and then as a private cantorial student. In 1895 Nadel enrolled in the Jewish Teacher’s Institute in Berlin, and upon …
Sholom Secunda
… was born on August 23, 1894 in Alexandria, a small town in the Kherson province, to parents Abraham and Anna Secunda. He was the sixth of nine children born to the Secunda family. In … immigration. That same year, Sholom was recruited by Cantor Bezalel Brown to sing for the Synagogue choir, the …
Wolf Shestapol
… Born in Odessa , Ukraine . Officiated as cantor in Kherson and was a prolific composer, producing … in Vienna . His fluent music reading was unusual among the cantors of his day. Sources: Bayer, Bathja. 'Shestapol, …
Gershon Sirota
… Gershon Sirota was born in 1874 in Podolia, where his father officiated as the village cantor. As a boy, Sirota frequently assisted his father in …