(172 results found)
Isaac Offenbach
… Jacques Offenbach . Offenbach was a noted composer of synagogue and secular music. The majority of his musical … editor and translator. He published a Haggadah with a German translation, an appendix of original and traditional melodies (1838), and a Hebrew-German youth prayer book (1839). … Cantor & composer … …
Jacques Offenbach
… and both boys earned their keep by singing in a local synagogue choir. Due to financial difficulties, Jacques was … career as a cello virtuoso, traveling throughout France and Germany and performing with noted musicians and composers …
Edward Stark
… there in the early 1860’s. The Stark family settled in the German-Jewish community concentrated in the 'East 50’s' of … Stark was active in many associations, including the Germania Quartet Club, an amateur singing group. He composed … he was offered a position at Emanu-El, the largest Reform Synagogue in San Francisco . Emanu-El was one of the first …
Joseph Shlisky
… around 1894. As a child, he sang in the choir of the local synagogue. A cantor from a neighboring village heard the … of the 20th century, the Jewish community in Toronto grew, synagogues flourished, and hazzanut began to prosper as an … arias from a variety of schools—Italian, Russian, and German. He also performed his signature rendition of …
Zikmund (Siegmund) Schul
… Zikmund Schul was born on January 11, 1916 in Kassell , Germany . Schul studied composition with Paul Hindemith, until he fled to Prague to seek refuge from German persecution. During the years 1937-38, Schul studied … a close friendship with Rabbi Lieben of the Old-New Synagogue in Prague . While in Prague , Schul discovered …
Elio Piattelli
… by Pasquale Troia Choirmaster of the Tempio Maggiore (Great Synagogue) in Rome from 1948 to 1984, Elio Piatelli enhanced … is not a translation but an original work of mine” (source: Germanic History [in Latin, Monumenta Germaniae Historica ]), written as a radio drama, recorded …
Herman Berlinski
… U.S. in 1941. Was known as an organist (which he played in synagogues and on tours) and as a composer. Many of his … , on the Information Bulletin of the Library of Congress. … German-American composer and organist … 0 … Herman Berlinski …
Shlomo ben Shimshon (Weintraub) Kashtan
… of Hirsch Weintraub, Salomon was one of the earliest synagogue cantors whose musical compositions are extant … at the Martin Buber Institute of the University of Cologne, Germany. Its objective is to publish the Hebrew text of … with an English translation, a commentary, the original German text of Hirsch’s brief autobiography (essentially a …
Marcus Hast
… (near Warsaw). After serving as a cantor in Poland and Germany, he moved to London, and worked there as a cantor … . One of the rare items is Hast's earliest collection of synagogue music from 1878 which he edited in collaboration … Hast claims to have published the first volume of Ashkenazi Synagogue music in England (the very first of all, [David …
Maier Kohn
… Born in Schwabach, Bavaria (today Germany). Worked as a cantor and as an educator in Munich. … in Muenchen , is considered the first modern collection of synagogue melodies. It includes his own compositions, as …