Samuel Naumbourg
Samuel Naumbourg (born March 15, 1817 in Dennenlohe , Bavaria , † May 1, 1880 in Saint-Mandé ) was a French cantor and composer of liturgical-Jewish music.
He worked as a cantor and choir conductor in Strasbourg , Besançon and finally Paris . He received permission from the management of his Paris synagogue and the French state to carry out a reform of the liturgical music practice, with the aim of bringing together the different Jewish customs and creating a common musical basis for French synagogues. In 1847 he published the first volume of his vocal work Zemirot Yisrael . The second and third volumes appeared in 1852 and 1862. Samuel Naumbourg was naturalized in France in 1846 . He was professor of liturgical chant at the Séminaire israëlite de Paris.
Main work
literature
- Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. Volume IV, page 507f. DNB 453535658 .
- Eliyahu grinder: Samuel Naumbourg. The Cantor of French Jewish Emancipation . Published by Centrum Judaicum , Hentrich & Hentrich , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942271-88-2 (= Jewish Miniatures , Volume 136A).
- Samuel Naumbourg. Cantor of the French-Jewish emancipation . Translated by Marion Ahl, Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95565-023-0 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 136)
Individual evidence
- ^ Martha Stellmacher: From Budapest to Strasbourg - The Cantor Marcel Lorand (1912-1988) ; in Rebekka Denz and Dorothea M. Salzer: 'A prayer without singing is like a body without a soul.' - Aspects of synagogal music , Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2014, p. 43
Web links
- Isidore Singer, Jacques Kahn: NAUMBOURG, SAMUEL. In: Isidore Singer (Ed.): Jewish Encyclopedia . Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901-1906.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Naumbourg, Samuel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cantor and composer of liturgical-Jewish music |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dennenlohe |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 1880 |
| Place of death | Saint-Mandé |