Composers

usic has been a part of worship services for more than 2,000 years. While much of the earliest Jewish musical traditions were lost with the destruction of the Second Temple, new ones were developed as a result of the Diaspora, with each community developing its own sound that was influenced by local music and customs.

At Temple Emanu-El, our musical tradition is patterned after the great choral synagogues of Europe — those that adhered to the musical tradition of the “Vienna Rite,” which was started by the great cantor Solomon Sulzer of Vienna. His was the first of the great “choral synagogues.” Others following in this tradition were the synagogues of Berlin and Paris, as well as those of Kiev, Minsk, Moscow, Odessa and St. Petersburg.

Following are composers whose works often are featured at Sabbath and holiday services at Temple Emanu-El. It is to their creativity that we are indebted for helping to make Temple Emanu-El an acclaimed musical institution.

Hugo Chaim Adler	Samuel Adler	Leon Algazi	Aminadav Aloni
Israel Alter	Lawrence Avery	Morris Barash	Paul Ben-Haim
Jean Berger	Irving Berlin	Leonard Bernstein	A.W. Binder
Ernest Bloch	Yehezkel Braun	Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco	Julius Chajes
Gerald Cohen	Steve Cohen	Aaron Copland	Lori A. Corrsin
Charles Davidson	David Diamond	Abraham Ellstein	Eleanor Epstein
Isadore Freed	Elieser Gerovitsch	Elaine Broad Ginsberg	Jack Gottlieb
George Frideric Handel	Aharon Harlap	Franz Joseph Haydn	Max Helfman
Andrea Jill Higgins	Michael Isaacson	Joshua R. Jacobson	Max Janowski
Adolph Katchko	Gershon Kingsley	Emanuel Kirschner	Matthew Lazar
David Lefkowitz	Elliot Z. Levine	Louis Lewandowski	Felix Mendelssohn
Israel Lazarus Mombach	Samuel Naumbourg	Charles Osborne	Frederick Piket
Stephen Richards	Salamone Rossi	Lazare Saminsky	Simon Sargon
Bruce Saylor	Heinrich Schalit	Benjie Ellen Schiller	Sholom Secunda
Naomi Shemer	David Shukiar	Bonia Shur	Raymond Smolover
Robert Solomon	Max Spicker	Ben Steinberg	Randall Thompson
Frank Van der Stucken	K. Scott Warren	Kurt Weill	Arthur Wolfson

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