Lazar Weiner (October 24, 1897 in

Cherkassy Cherkasy ( uk, Черка́си, ) is a city in central Ukraine. Cherkasy is the capital of Cherkasy Oblast (province), as well as the administrative center of Cherkasky Raion (district) within the oblast. The city has a population of Ch ...

– January 10, 1982 in Flushing, Queens) was an Imperial Russian-born, American-naturalized composer of

Yiddish song Yiddish song is a general description of several genres of music sung in Yiddish which includes songs of Yiddish theatre, Klezmer songs, and "Yiddish art song" after the model of the German Lied and French mélodie. The Yiddish language and song F ...

.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" He emigrated to America at the age of 17 and later became the music director of the Central Synagogue in

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Works

Weiner composed more than 200 art songs as well as Yiddish and Hebrew cantatas and full synagogue services.

Selected recordings

Milken Archive The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is a collection of material about the history of Jewish Music in the United States. It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an ext ...

External links

Milken Archive Biography

References

American male classical composers American classical composers Kyiv Conservatory alumni Musicians from New York City Jews from the Russian Empire Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States 1897 births 1982 deaths 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 20th-century American Jews {{US-composer-19thC-stub