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Léon AlgaziDiscographyAlgazi supervised field recordings by Ana and Lazare Angel, and composed the arrangements for the other 78s listed below.
Addendum: Gramophone K-8067, Scalerica de oro, recorded early March 1938, Paris(?) France(?) BiographyBorn in Romania in 1890, Léon Algazi composed, arranged, conducted and collected Jewish music. From his early studies with Abraham Idelsohn, he acquired an interest in Jewish folklore and tradition. Starting in 1929 he presented a weekly program of Jewish music on the French radio, and in 1937 became conductor at the Rue de la Victoire Synagogue. (He was not related to Salomon or Isaac Algazi.) Many of Algazi's compositions of orchestral suites, psalms, harmonizations of traditional songs, and incidental music for the cinema and the theater drew on Jewish liturgical and folklore materials. He published an extemely valuable collection, Chants séphardis (London, 1958). His source materials were gathered from Sephardi immigrants living in Paris in the late 1940s, as well as from previously printed sources. He also wrote essays on Jewish music in many scholarly publications. Source Encyclopedia Judaica Seroussi, 2008 |
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