Israel Lovy
Israel Lovy | |
|---|---|
| Personal life | |
| Born | August 31, 1773 Schottland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth |
| Died | January 7, 1832 (aged 58) |
| Children | Julius Lovy |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Judaism |
Israel Lovy (31 August 1773 – 7 January 1832), also known as Israel Glogauer, 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 Fürth, where he continued his secular and musical education, becoming accomplished in violin, violoncello, and piano, and becoming proficient in French and Italian.[2] At the request of the Duke of Bavaria, Lovy sang the tenor part in a performance of Haydn's The Creation and was allowed to give public concerts in Nuremberg, which at the time was oficially off limits to Jews.[3]
After having served for short terms congregations in Mayence, Strasbourg, and London, he went to Paris in 1818, where he became the chief ḥazzan of the newly-founded Reform synagogue on rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth, at which he officiated until his death. In March 1822, his congregation dedicated a new synagogue building and introduced an organ and boys' chorus. Lovy wrote all the music for the organ and the new choir, puslished posthumously as Chants religieux 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 Cemetary of Paris.[1]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; Warsaw, Isidow (1901–1906). "Lovy, Israel". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Conway, David (2012). Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 211. ISBN 978-1-139-05848-3. OCLC 777549429.
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