Hugo Chaim Adler

Hugo Chaim Adler (born January 17, 1894 in Antwerp , † December 24, 1955 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) was a Belgian composer, cantor and choirmaster of the Jewish faith.

Life

Adler was born in 1896 as the son of Simon and Emma Adler, b. Dahl born in Antwerp. He studied at conservatories in Cologne (1915–1916) and Frankfurt (1920) and was a student of the Austrian composer Ernst Toch from 1924 to 1926 .

From 1922 to 1938 Adler worked as a cantor (from 1930 as head cantor) and teacher of Hebrew and music at the main synagogue in Mannheim . He set Hebrew poetry translated by Franz Rosenzweig to music. After he was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp following the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938 , he fled to the United States at the end of 1938, where he was cantor at the Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1939 to 1955.

Adler was married to Selma Rothschild, with whom he had two children. He is the father of the contemporary German-American composer and conductor Samuel Hans Adler .

Works (selection)

Light and People, 1928
To Zion, 1930
Job, 1932
Balak and Balaam, 1932
Shirah Chadashah, 1936
Akedah, 1938
Jonah, 1944
Nachlath Israel, 1952
Marcello's 19th psalm, 1953

literature

Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 .
Harry Schneiderman, Itzhak Carmin (Ed.), Who's who in world Jewry. A biographical dictionary of outstanding Jews. New York, 1955.

Web links

Hugo Chaim Adler in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)

Individual evidence

↑ Milken Archive of Jewish Music - Samuel Adler - biography on milkenarchive.org (English)
^ The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Editor Don Michael Randel, Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, 1996 p. 6 ISBN 0-674-37299-9 Samuel Adler biography on books.google.com (English)
↑ A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works, Part 1, Jonathan D. Green, Scarecrow Press, Oxford, 1994, Chapter II - Survey of Works p. 14 ISBN 978-0-8108-4720-0 Samuel Adler on books.google.com (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Adler, Hugo Chaim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Adler, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian composer, chasan and choir director
DATE OF BIRTH	January 17, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Antwerp , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH	December 24, 1955
Place of death	Worcester, Massachusetts , United States

[1] Milken Archive of Jewish Music - Samuel Adler - biography on milkenarchive.org (English)

[2] The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Editor Don Michael Randel, Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, 1996 p. 6 ISBN 0-674-37299-9 Samuel Adler biography on books.google.com (English)

[3] A Conductor's Guide to Choral-Orchestral Works, Part 1, Jonathan D. Green, Scarecrow Press, Oxford, 1994, Chapter II - Survey of Works p. 14 ISBN 978-0-8108-4720-0 Samuel Adler on books.google.com (English)