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Leon Algazi
… He studied music in Vienna and Paris and graduated from the Ecole Rabbinique in France . His first teaching post was at the Ecole de Liturgie et de Pedagogie in Paris , a position … he worked as a professor of Jewish music at the Schola Cantorum, and finally in 1961 was appointed the director of …
David Nowakowsky
… to Berditchev where he was recruited as a choirboy for the local choral Synagogue. While in Berditchev, Nowakowsky learned harmony and counterpoint and studied the cantorial tradition from noted cantors Yeruham Hokoton …
Eliezer Mordecai Ben Isaac Gerovich
… Cantor and composer. Born in Ukraine . Studied music in … Odessa and St. Petersburg . In 1887 began officiating as cantor in Rostov , and stayed there for 25 years. Known for his two volume collection of …
Kurt Weill
… Kurt Julian Weill was born in Dessau, Germany in 1900. His father was a cantor and his mother had rabbinical roots. After establishing himself with …
Abraham Goldfaden
… Abraham Goldfaden, known as the father of the Yiddish theater, was born in Staro Konstantinov, … building a cast of performers, recruiting actors, singers, cantors, and wandering minstrels to be involved in the …
Hugo Adler
… Hugo Adler was born in Antwerp, Belgium. He sang in the choir of Yossele Roenblatt in Hamburg, officiated as cantor in the Haupt-Synagoge in Mannheim, Germany (1921-1939), and …
Michael Lukin
… A research associate, specializing in the traditional culture of Yiddish speakers. His recent publications, featured in Polin , The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore , … such as Yiddish carnivalesque, folk theater melodies, cantorial improvisation, and the legacy of M. Beregovski’s …
Amit Klein
… from Bar-Ilan University, primarily focusing on Ashkenazi Cantorial recitatives and performance practice. He has … Agenda, Carlebach Nusah vs. Cantorial Recitatives, and the performance styles of 20th-century cantorial recitatives. His paper on the Musical Supplication in the Golden Age of Ashkenazi …
Samuel Alman
… Podolia in 1877. He began his musical education at the conservatory in Odessa and was a member of the Russian army band based there. After the tragic pogrom … . Alman was deeply influenced by the Eastern European cantorial tradition, specifically by the work of hazzanim …
Aaron Beer
… was born in Bamberg, Bavaria in 1739. He held his first cantorial post at the Paderborn congregation. Beer was known for the extraordinarily wide range of his tenor voice. At the …