Aaron Beer (Cantor)

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Aron Beer (1808)
mezzotint by Benedict Heinrich Bendix

Aaron Beer Gabriel , also Aron Beer (born February 10, 1739 in Poppenlauer , Lower Franconia ; † January 3, 1821 in Berlin ) was a German chasan (cantor) of the 18th century and notarized (secretary and notary).

biography

Aaron Beer was a tenor of considerable vocal range . He found his first position as cantor in Paderborn . In 1765 he came to Berlin, received his license to practice medicine as cantor of the Great Synagogue in Heidereutergasse on July 6, 1774 as the successor to Oberkantor Hartog Leo and finally in 1786 became its senior cantor. During his decades of work there he “enjoyed a high reputation” and was “a shining light of Jewish cantors in the 18th century” .

Beer composed himself, also commissioned compositions and in this way collected over 1200 pieces of music that he used in the liturgy . He tried to keep the congregation from singing along with new melodies. In 1914 Beers musical legacy was in the hands of medical officer Dr. Hugo Schlesinger in Berlin. A collection of 447 worship songs came through all office successors to Cantor Eduard Birnbaum (1855-1920), who finally bequeathed them to the library of the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (USA), where it is still located today.

The Berlin court painter Johann Christoph Frisch made a portrait of him, as did Benedict Heinrich Bendix (1770–1828).

literature

  • The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851 , Walter de Gruyter, 1962 ( online )
  • Evi Butzer: The beginnings of the Yiddish purim shpiln in their literary and cultural-historical context , Buske Verlag, 2003 ( online )
  • Raphael Posner, Uri Kaploun, Shalom Cohen: Jewish liturgy. Prayer and synagogue service through the ages , Keter Pub. House Jerusalem, 1975, ISBN 0706514149
  • Judah Gribetz, Edward L. Greenstein, Regina Stein: The timetables of Jewish history. A chronology of the most important people and events in Jewish history , page 230, Verlag Simon & Schuster, 1993, ISBN 0671640070 ( excerpt )
  • Tina Frühauf: The organ and its music in German-Jewish culture , Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 0195337069
  • Geoffrey Wigoder: Everyman's Judaica. An encyclopedic dictionary , 1975
  • Emanuel Rubin, John H. Baron: Music in Jewish history and culture , Issue 47 of Detroit monographs in musicology / Studies in music , Harmonie Park Press, 2006, ISBN 0899901336
  • Moritz Stern: History of the Old Synagogue in Berlin. In: Hermann Simon , Harmen Thies (ed.): Series of publications of the Centrum Judaicum. Volume 1, Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, 2007, ISBN 3938485663 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jacob Jacobson (ed.): The Jewish Citizens' Books of the City of Berlin 1809-1851 , Walter de Gruyter, 1962, ISBN 9783110004489 , p. 121
  2. ↑ Encyclopaedia Judaica, Volume III / (Ba-Blo), 2nd edition, Keter Publishing House Ltd., 2007, pp. 250 and 251
  3. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003. Volume 1: Aarden – Castles, p. 313. ISBN 3-598-11598-9
  4. ↑ Hans Herzfeld: Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759-1813, with additions for the years 1723 to 1759 , Verlag de Gruyter, 1968, page 170 ( excerpt )
  5. ↑ a b Aaron Beer. In: Thesaurus of Jewish Music. Jewish Music Research Center, accessed May 10, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Arthur Czellitzer : Jüdische Familien-Forschung, issues 35-50 , Society for Jüdische Familien-Forschung, Verlag G. Sauer Reprint, 1934, page 784 ( excerpt )
personal data
SURNAME Beer, Aaron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beer Gabriel, Aaron (full name); Beer, Aron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Chasan (cantor) and certified person (secretary and notary)
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1739
PLACE OF BIRTH Poppenlauer , Lower Franconia
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1821
Place of death Berlin