Lazar Weiner
Lazar Weiner (October 24, 1897 in Cherkassy – January 10, 1982 in Flushing, Queens) was an Imperial Russian-born, American-naturalized composer of Yiddish song.[1] He emigrated to America at the age of 17 and later became the music director of the Central Synagogue in Manhattan.
Works[]
Weiner composed more than 200 art songs as well as Yiddish and Hebrew cantatas and full synagogue services.
Selected recordings[]
- Milken Archive
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- ^ Obituary Jewish folklore and ethnology newsletter American Folklore Society. Jewish Folklore and Ethnology Section, Max Weinreich Center for Advanced Jewish Studies - 1982 "LAZAR WEINER 1897-1982 Born in Cherkassy, a small town in the southern Ukraine, Lazare Weiner moved to Kiev when he was ten years old. He sang in synagogue choirs as a child, and by the age of thirteen, he entered the Kiev Conservatory"
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- American male classical composers
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- Kyiv Conservatory alumni
- People from Cherkasy
- Jews of the Russian Empire
- Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
- 1897 births
- 1982 deaths
- Composers of the Russian Empire
- Jewish classical composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- 20th-century American composers
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American people of Russian-Jewish descent
- Jewish American classical composers
- Naturalized citizens of the United States
- American composer, 19th-century birth stubs