Zevulun Kwartin
Zevulun Kwartin , also Zawel Kwartin , ( Hebrew זבולון קוורטין; born March 25, 1874 in Khonorod , Cherson Governorate , Russian Empire , today Ukraine ; died October 3, 1952 in Newark , USA ) was a Russian-American Chasan . Together with Josef Rosenblatt and Mordechai Hershman (1888–1940) he was one of the most famous and best-paid Khazanim of the first half of the 20th century.
Life
Zevulun Kwartin was born in a Stetl into a Hasidic family who ran a textile trade. As a child he worked in the family business and was an apprentice to a bookbinder and a locksmith. His brother-in-law encouraged him to have his voice trained and become a Chasan, but Kwartin was more interested in operas and classical music at the time . In 1894 he married and settled with his in-laws in Jelisawetgrad (today Kropywnyzkyj ). After a successful performance in the local synagogue, he moved to Vienna to study cantoral singing, and appeared in a public concert for the first time in 1896. In the following years he gave concerts all over Europe, was Chasan in Ukraine and Budapest and in 1903 was employed as Chasan in Vienna.
In 1914 he received an offer for a tour in the USA with a record fee of 30,000 dollars, but had to stay in Vienna after the outbreak of the First World War. In 1920 he was able to take up this offer and initially had an appearance at the Metropolitan Opera in New York , which was not particularly successful. After another concert in the New York Hippodrome , he received engagements all over America and was employed as Chasan at the Temple Emanu-El in Brooklyn . After spending several years in Eretz Israel from 1926 to 1937, he returned to the USA and became Chasan in Newark , New Jersey . He died in 1952 and was buried in Israel.
Kwartin was famous and respected for his sonorous baritone and his extensive vocal range . His best-known interpretation is the prayer Tiher Rabbi Ishmael from the Midrash Elle ezkera , which is recited in the liturgy of Yom Kippur at Mussaf .
He published three books on Chasanut - cantoral singing - and a Yiddish autobiography, which he completed at the age of 75.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Short biography (Engl.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kwartin, Zevulun |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kwartin, Zawel; זבולון קוורטין (Hebrew) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian-American cantor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Khonorod , Kherson Governorate , Russian Empire , today Ukraine |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1952 |
| Place of death | Newark , USA |