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March 15, 2023
The 17th-Century Italian Composer Who Wanted Jews to Reclaim Their “Ancient” Musical Tradition
Jewish excellence in musical theater, three centuries before Irving Berlin.
In 1622, the Italian Jewish violinist Salamone Rossi, who worked as a concertmaster in the court of the duke of Mantua, published the first-ever collection of polyphonic Jewish musical compositions. Titled Ha-Shirim asher li-Shlomo (“The Songs That Are of Solomon”), the book contained scores of original choral arrangements for traditional lyrics, written with European musical notation. It also contained a preface by Rabbi Leon Modena, arguing that such singing was appropriate to the synagogue. As Rebecca Cypess explains, not all of Modena’s rabbinic colleagues agreed:
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The 17th-Century Italian Composer Who Wanted Jews to Reclaim Their “Ancient” Musical Tradition
Jewish excellence in musical theater, three centuries before Irving Berlin.
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