Oscar Weil Values Codes H – E – L – P Oscar Weil was born to German-Jewish immigrant parents in Columbia County, New York, in 1839. At age eighteen, Weil left New York to pursue musical training at the Conservatory of Leipzig. Violin was his primary
Read more →Cantor Alexander Weisler Values Codes H – E – L Little has been preserved about the life of Cantor Alexander Weisler. He was a pupil of Cantor Salomon Sulzer, the “father of the modern cantorate” who taught at the Vienna Conservatory in the late 1840s. This suggests
Read more →Julie Eichberg Rosewald Values Codes I – E – L – P Julie Eichberg was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1847. Her father, Moritz Eichberg, was a cantor in the city and, along with his wife Eleanor, raised a musically talented family. Julie’s vocal abilities were
Read more →Sir Henry Heyman Values Codes I – H – E – L – P Henry Heyman was born in Oakland, California in 1855. The Heymans were among the first Jewish settlers of Oakland and operated a stove store. Henry Heyman’s talent for the violin was apparent
Read more →Cantor Edward Stark Values Codes I – H – E – L Edward Stark was born in 1856 in Hohenems, Austria. Edward Stark’s father, Cantor Josef Stark, was a pupil of Salomon Sulzer, the famed “father of the modern cantorate.” Josef Stark served as a cantor in Ichenhausen,
Read more →Joseph Bartlett Choynski Values Codes E – L – P Joseph Bartlett Choynski was born in San Francisco, California, in 1868. He was born to Isidor Nathan Choynski and Harriet Ashim. He had five siblings: Herbert, Miriam, Maurice, and Edwin. San Francisco Joseph (“Joe”)
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