Composers

Music 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 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	Catherine Aks	Leon Algazi
Samuel Alman	Aminadav Aloni	Israel Alter	Robert Applebaum
Lawrence Avery	Morris Barash	Paul Ben-Haim	Jean Berger
Irving Berlin	Herman Berlinski	Andrew Bernard	Leonard Bernstein
A.W. Binder	Ernest Bloch	Johannes Brahms	Yehezkel Braun
David Burger	Harry T. Burleigh	Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco	Julius Chajes
Gerald Cohen	Steve Cohen	Aaron Copland	Lori A. Corrsin
Pedro d'Aquino	Charles Davidson	David Diamond	Abraham Ellstein
Gershon Ephros	Eleanor Epstein	Meir Finkelstein	Isadore Freed
Debbie Friedman	Herbert Fromm	Elieser Gerovitsch	Elaine Broad Ginsberg
Stephen Glass	Mo Glazman	Srul Irving Glick	Israel Goldstein
Jack Gottlieb	Charles François Gounod	Evan J. Griffith	Paul Halley
George Frideric Handel	Aharon Harlap	Franz Joseph Haydn	Max Helfman
Andrea Jill Higgins	Michael Isaacson	Joshua R. Jacobson	Max Janowski
Martin Kalmanoff	Adolph Katchko	Gershon Kingsley	Emanuel Kirschner
Marc Lavry	Matthew Lazar	David Lefkowitz	Tom Lehrer
Elliot Z. Levine	Louis Lewandowski	Benjamin Z. Maissner	Danny Maseng
Felix Mendelssohn	Jonathan Miller	Israel Lazarus Mombach	Allan Naplan
Samuel Naumbourg	Charles Osborne	Frederick Piket	Jane Roman Pitt
Marshall Portnoy	Lance Rhodes	Stephen Richards	McNeil Robinson
Salamone Rossi	Lazare Saminsky	Simon Sargon	Bruce Saylor
Heinrich Schalit	David Schiff	Benjie Ellen Schiller	Franz Peter Schubert
Sholom Secunda	Pete Seeger	William Sharlin	Naomi Shemer
David Shukiar	Bonia Shur	Julie Silver	Raymond Smolover
Robert Solomon	William Sparger	Max Spicker	Ben Steinberg
Salomon Sulzer	Randall Thompson	Frank Van der Stucken	Ralph Vaughan Williams
Chemjo Vinaver	K. Scott Warren	John Weaver	Kurt Weill
Jacob Weinberg	Lazar Weiner	Moshe Wilensky	Arthur Wolfson

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