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Lot #    18660
Auction End Date    8/21/2007 11:06:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Judische Musiker am Hofe von Mantua von 1542-1628
Author    Ed. Birnbaum
City    Vienna
Publisher    Moriz Waizner & Sohn
Publication Date    1893
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    33, [7] pp., musical scores, 144:97 mm., usual age staining, loose in contemporary boards. This volume is stamped as being from the well known Birnbaum Collection.
          
Paragraph 1    This book is an offprint from the Kalendar fur Israeliten fur das Jahr 5654.

Eduard Birnbaum (1855-1920) wrote of the Jewish musicians who worked in Mantua. His study has been translated into Italian in 1967, into Hebrew in 1975 and into English as Jewish Musicians at the court of the Mantuan Dukes (1542-1628) by Judith Cohen (Tel Aviv, 1978).

          
Detailed
Description		    Cantor, composer and scholar, Eduard Birnbaum was born in Cracow in 1855 and was educated there as well as in Breslau, Magdeburg and Vienna. As a long-time cantor in Koenigsberg, Birnbaum dedicated himself to collecting materials related to all areas of Jewish music, ultimately achieving international recognition as the leading expert in the field of synagogue music. Among the materials he collected( which are now exceedingly rare and of greatest historic importance) are complete, handwritten vocal scores dating from 1825 through the 1860s of liturgies for the entire Jewish calendar arranged by community. The Birnbaum Collection contains the world's only copies of scores created before 1840. Cities represented include Hamburg, Braunschweig, Hanover, Magdeburg, Breslau, Stettin, and Koenigsberg. In addition, approximately 300 folio volumes give a nearly complete picture of liturgical as well as musical developments in Central Europe during these years. The Birnbaum Collection was acquired by Hebrew Union College in 1918 during Librarian Adolph S. Oko's trip through Europe to buy Judaica for the expanding HUC library in Cincinnati. Musicologist Eric Werner, a founder of the School of Sacred Music, described Birnbaum's catalog to his collection as a "musico-liturgical one, listing all melodies of synagogal songs printed or written in Europe between 1700 and 1910, to which are added many bibliographical references." Werner noted that the catalog illustrates the development of Jewish liturgical music, reflecting the secular and Christian liturgical music environments in which it developed. The Birnbaum Collection thus reflects a virtually untapped source for scholars and historians of European early music, church music and other genres. The complex structure of the Collection and high percentage of largely unindexed materials have hindered musicologists from delving into this treasure trove of musical riches.
          
Reference
Description		    http://www.huc.edu/libraries/exhibits/birnbaum.html
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Other:    Austria
  
Subject
Music:    Checked
  
Characteristic
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica