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Alois Kaiser
… Teachers' Seminary and Conservatory of Music in Vienna. From the age of ten he sang in the choir of Solomon Sulzer, … in Fünfhaus, one of the suburbs of the Austrian capital; from 1863 to 1866 he was cantor at the Neusynagoge at Prague. … years president of the Society of American Cantors. From 1895, he was honorary member of the Central Conference …
Meir Shimon Geshuri
… Empire (now Mysłowice, Poland), Geshuri (a name derived from the Hebrew for “bridge,” an equivalent of the German … Geshuri acknowledges the Hassidic background of his youth: From the Tzaddik Rabbi Haim-Shmuel Halevy Horwitz of … Bruckner and my grandfather R. Abraham Mordecai Bruckner from Skała-Wolbrom [i.e. his grandfather had immigrated from …
Fritz Rikko
… the free summer concerts it gave in Washington Square Park from 1956 through 1974 with Rikko as conductor. Rikko had …
Moritz Deutsch
… The support for the new institute marked a shift away from the meshorerim tradition of cantorial apprenticeships …
Leib Glanz
… to diversify the tradition, Glanz incorporated gestures from many different genres, including romantic music, Israeli folk songs, and Jewish liturgical music from communities throughout the Diaspora. While working at …
Isaac Nathan
… . (*The photo was taken from Wikipedia) … Composer … Isaac Nathan …
Samuel Naumbourg
… Samuel Naumbourg was born in Dennelohe, Bavaria, groomed from a young age to continue the long line of professional … at the Séminaire Israélite. With the support of Jacques Fromental Halevy and the French government, Naumbourg set out … the series was re-released in 1864. Though Naumbourg comes from the South German tradition, a large percentage of his …
Leon Algazi
… Composer Leon Algazi was born in Iepuresti, Romania in 1890. He studied music in Vienna and Paris and graduated from the Ecole Rabbinique in France . His first teaching post …
David Nowakowsky
… and counterpoint and studied the cantorial tradition from noted cantors Yeruham Hokoton and hazzan Spitzberg. In … began to showcase his compositions in the service. Aside from his work at the Brody Synagogue, Nowakowsky also taught …
Darius Milhaud
… avant-garde group known as Les Six . He drew inspiration from diverse musical traditions, incorporating jazz, …