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Charles Kensington Salaman

… and opera, and had a special interest in devotional music for the synagogue. He wrote 124 settings for synagogue services of Reform Judaism. Sources: Encyclopedia …

… contain the earliest surviving manuscript source of Jewish music notation of synagogue chant. Sources: Encyclopedia Judaica , Oxford Music Online. For a comprehensive and updated (2019) …

Joseph Papernikoff

… Thanks to his voice, a beautiful alto voice, and his musical hearing, he was accepted at the age of 8 to the choir of the Tlomacka Synagogue in Warsaw under the direction of the cantor …

Yehiel 'Adaki

… time, continuing with his religious studies at night in the synagogue with Rabbi Avraham Badi h i. When 'Adaki was 13 … and studied their repertoire. He had a good voice and musical hearing, as well as a good memory and perception, … 'Adaki also learned cantorate from his visits to the synagogue. In 1920 'Adaki fled from Sana'a and began a long …

Israel Adler

… the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études and at the Institut de Musicologie at the Sorbonne where he combined Jewish and … was the compilation of all manuscript music sources of synagogue music prior to 1840, which were published in 1989 … hand panoramic view into the oldest recorded music of the synagogue. The oldest of these sources, and a source of …

Israel Alter

… Ukraine) into a Hasidic family with many rabbis. He studied music in Vienna with cantors and teachers of singing and … of 20, he began serving as the cantor of the Brigittenauer Synagogue in Vienna. In 1925, he moved to Hanover , where he … Hazzanim – Cantors, Cantors … Cantors - Hazzanim … German Synagogue … Tenor … Yiddish songs … Ashkenazi liturgical …

Moses Beregovski

… born in the Ukraine in 1892. He was exposed to liturgical music at an early age through his father who was a teacher at the Kiev Jewish Music School and a ba’al kore (official who reads the Torah from the scroll in synagogue with proper accentuation and cantillation). …

Abraham Wolf Binder

… York to a family of cantors and into a world enriched by synagogue music and Jewish folklore. He was a member of his father’s synagogue choir from a young age, an experience which …

Eduard Birnbaum

… in Bydgoszcz. His teachers at Bydgoszcz identified his musical talent early on and sent him to Vilna to study … 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 …

Abraham Baer

… western Prussia before settling as a cantor at the Goteborg Synagogue in Sweden in 1857. During his tenure there, along … . Baal Tfilla includes original compositions, as well as music borrowed from Salomon Sulzer , Louis Lewandowski … The remarkable list of congratulatory notes by cantors and musicians from the four corners of the Jewish world, which …