Israel Lovy
Israel Lovy | |
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Personal | |
Born | Schottland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | August 31, 1773
Died | January 7, 1832 | (aged 58)
Religion | Judaism |
Children | Julius Lovy |
Jewish leader | |
Successor | Samuel Naumbourg |
Position | Ḥazzan |
Synagogue | Temple rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth |
Began | 1818 |
Ended | 1832 |
Buried | Montmartre Cemetery |
Israel Lovy (31 August 1773 – 7 January 1832), also known as Israel Glogauer and Israel Fürth, was a ḥazzan and composer.
Biography
Israel Lovy was born in Schottland, near Danzig, into a lineage of ḥazzanim from Poland and Pomerania.[1] He received a Talmudic and secular education at Glogau, where his father was ḥazzan. From the age of 13, he acted as assistant ḥazzan in various communities of Moravia, Bohemia, Saxony, and Bavaria. Lovy travelled extensively, visiting the greatest cantors of the time, and studying the works of the greatest masters, especially those of Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
From 1799 to 1806, Lovy was employed in
After having served for short terms at congregations in Mayence, Strasbourg, and London, he went to Paris in 1818, where he became the ḥazzan of the now-defunct Temple rue Saint-Avoie.[4] In May 1822, he became ḥazzan of the newly founded Temple rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, which dedicated a new synagogue building and introduced the use of an organ and boys' chorus.[5] The synagogue commissioned Lovy to compose a new rendition of the service to complement these reforms.[6] These compositions, along with other earlier works, were published posthumously as Chants religieux, Composés pour les Prières Hébraïques (1862).[2] He received attractive offers from the stage, but the Jewish Consistory of Paris elected him for life and thus induced him to remain as ḥazzan.
He died from a breast disease on 7 January 1832, and is buried in the North-Montmartre Cemetery of Paris.[1] Many of his tunes became popular as far as Poland; and one of them was adopted by Abraham Goldfaden in his opera Shulamith.[7]
See also
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Warsaw, Isidow (1904). "Lovy, Israel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 8. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 191.
- ^ a b Roten, Hervé. "Lovy, Israël (1773-1832)". Institut Européen des Musiques Juives. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Israel Lovy". Jewish Music Research Centre. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- OCLC 777549429.
- JSTOR 23687684.
- ^ Lovy, Israel (1862). Chants religieux: Composés pour les Prières Hébrai͏̈ques. Paris: Administration du Temple Israelite.
- ISBN 978-1-139-15121-4.
- OCLC 25411577.