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Eduard Birnbaum
… he was contracted to work as a hazzan in the Seminary's Synagogue. In 1872, he received an offer to officiate as the … Birnbaum was an avid collector of 18th and 19th century Synagogue music. He began his collection by copying the … other cantors and researchers, Birnbaum transcribed the Synagogue tradition as he had learned it. All of these …
Abraham Baer
… western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg Synagogue in Sweden in 1857. During his tenure there, along …
Mordechai Breuer
… development. Mordechai Breuer's Musical Education: In the synagogue of the Kahal Adat Yisrael congregation in … learned a lot there. There was a regular choir in the synagogue and the conductor, Max Neumann, who was also a music teacher at the school, took children he knew to the synagogue choir. At the age of 11, Breuer was accepted to …
Gershon Ephros
… Cantorial Anthology , a five-volume collection of synagogue compositions for cantor and choir, for the entire …
Alberto Hemsi
… and later in Milan. Worked as musical director in various synagogues in Egypt (1927-1957) and in France (from 1958). …
Aron Friedmann
… in Berlin and in 1882 was appointed chief hazzan of the Old Synagogue of the Berlin community, a post he held until …
Abraham Zvi Idelsohn
… Academy. Idelsohn served as a cantor at the Adat Jeshurun Synagogue in Leipzig, and in Regensburg and Johannesburg, … Zalman Schochet, though very old, or Orkin of the Zamet Synagogue. Little did I realize that Rabinovitz will later … also present, engaged me in the choir of the Charlottenburg Synagogue, of which he was the leader. My first …
Eric Karsenti
… musical traditions of the Algerian Jews; Written sources of synagogue music from nineteenth-century Italy. … Researcher …
Sylvan Sholom Kalib
… volume, The Musical Tradition of The Eastern European Synagogue , conceived as a five-volume, twenty-book treatise …
Leo Levi
… interests. His plan to devote a dissertation to the Italian synagogue song was frustrated by the rise of Fascism and … contacted almost fifty informants, professional hazzanim (synagogue cantors) and other culture-bearers. In over eighty …