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Mordechai Breuer
… Mordechai Breuer was born in the city of Frankfurt am Main on April, 1918. He was the second son of Dr. Yitzhak Breuer and Esther Jenny, born … Adat Yisrael congregation in Frankfurt am Main, poetry and cantorship occupied a significant place. As a musical child, …
Gershon Ephros
… Cantor and composer. Gershon Ephros was born in Serotsk, Poland. His father died when he was ten, and Ephros moved to live with his grandfather, Cantor Moses Fromberg. He received his first musical …
Andre Hajdu
… assimilated Hungarian-Jewish family and having survived the Holocaust (a subject he rarely commented on), André Hajdu enrolled after the war at the prestigious Franz Liszt Academy of Music in … and arranger. Or Haganuz , a collection of lieder for cantor and piano based on traditional pieces of Ashkenazi …
Aron Friedmann
… studied in Berlin and in 1882 was appointed chief hazzan of the Old Synagogue of the Berlin community, a post he held until 1923. He received … In 1901, he published Shir li-Shelomoh , a collection of cantorial music in traditional style for the prayers of the …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… his study of Jewish music in Libau where he trained to be a cantor. He continued his education at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin and at the Leipzig Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… The son of Ukranian-Jewish immigrants, Sholom Kalib was a … serving as a well-regarded hazzan, choirmaster, and cantorial pedagogue. There he also began his life’s work notating the great …
Leo Levi
… Leo Levi was the first scholar to devote research to the Italian Jewish oral musical traditions. However, his … almost fifty informants, professional hazzanim (synagogue cantors) and other culture-bearers. In over eighty recording …
Salomon Sulzer
… Born in Hohenemes, Austria, Sulzer officiated as a cantor in his hometown, and was later appointed cantor at the Seitenstettengasse Synagogue in Vienna, where he stayed … admired and imitated cantor of his time, appreciated beyond the Jewish community. As a composer and musician, Sulzer is …
Louis Lewandowski
… Louis Lewandowski was born in Wreschen, Poland in 1821. At the age of thirteen, as a result of his mother’s death and family’s extreme poverty, Lewandowski moved to Berlin to work as a singer in cantor Ascher Lion’s choir. During his time in Berlin, …
Yehoshu'a Leib Ne'eman
… Studied under Solomon Rosowsky , later becoming a popular cantor in many of Jerusalem's synagogues, while also teaching at the Jerusalem Academy of Music. Ne'eman wrote extensively on subjects such as cantorial education, biblical cantillation, etc. … Cantor & …