Salomon Sulzer

Salomon Sulzer

male, deceased (1890)
shabbat, Jewish, funeral, wedding, Hazzan, Sulz
Salomon Sulzer was an Austrian hazzan (cantor) and composer. His family, which prior to 1813 bore the name of "Loewy", removed to Hohenems from...
Richard Tucker

Richard Tucker

male, deceased (1975)
death by myocardial infarction, Jewish person, heart attack, myocardial infarction, musician, Cantor…Hazzan
Richard Tucker (August 28, 1913 - January 8, 1975) was an American tenor. He was born Ruvn Ticker in Brooklyn, New York, and his musical aptitude...
Samuel Adler

Samuel Adler

male, 81 years old
Harvard University, synagogue, Cantor, From Dallas, Hazzan, Temple Emanu-El
Samuel (Sam) Adler (born March 4, 1928) is an American (German-born) composer and conductor. Adler was born to a Jewish family in Mannheim,...
Gershom Mendes Seixas

Gershom Mendes Seixas

male, deceased (1816)
English, Jewish person, Columbia University, Sephardi Jew, Spanish and Portuguese Jew, Jewish American history…Hazzan
Gershom Mendes Seixas (1745-1816) the first native-born Jewish minister in the United States, was the minister of Congregation Shearith Israel, the...
Harold Arlen

Harold Arlen

male, deceased (1986)
buried at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Vaudeville performer, piano, Harlem, musician, Hyman Arluck…Hazzan
Harold Arlen was an American composer of popular music. One of the greatest composers of 20th century popular music, with over 400 songs, a number...
Gershon Sirota

Gershon Sirota

male, deceased (1943)
vilna, warsaw ghetto uprising, odessa, warsaw ghetto, Cantor, caruso…Hazzan
Gershon-Itskhok Sirota (1874, Podolskaya gubernya - 1943 Warsaw) was one of the leading cantors of Europe during the "Golden Age of Hazzanut"...
Leo Fuld

Leo Fuld

male
Jewish, schlager, From Rotterdam, Hazzan, Rotterdam Blitz, Hazzans
Lazarus 'Leo' Fuld was a Dutch singer who specialised in Yiddish songs. Leo Fuld was born as the third of ten children and grew up in a poor Jewish...
Dudu Fisher

Dudu Fisher

male, 58 years old
Musical theatre, Jewish, David ("Dudu") Fisher, Jean Valjean, Broadway theatre, Hazzan
David ("Dudu") Fisher is an Israeli cantor and stage performer. He is best known for his Broadway performance as Jean Valjean in the musical "Les...
Yehudi Wyner

Yehudi Wyner

male, 80 years old
Yale University alumni, immigrant to the United States, from New York City, Canadian, Hazzan, State University of New York at Purchase
Yehudi Wyner is an American composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator. Although Wyner was born in Calgary in 1929, he was raised in New York...
Hugo Weisgall

Hugo Weisgall

male, deceased (1997)
Psalm of the Distant Dove, German literature, Johns Hopkins University, Songwriter, Conductor, World War II…Hazzan
Hugo Weisgall was an American composer, known chiefly for opera and vocal music. He was born in Eibenschitz (now Ivančice), Moravia (then part of A...