Loading details…
Artist
Leib Glantz
12+ albums
UkraineAll
about
Leib Glantz was born in 1898 in Kiev, the Ukraine. His father and both grandfathers were great cantors with Chassidic backgrounds. Leibele, as he was fondly nicknamed, was eight years old when he first appeared as a cantor. Word spread swiftly about the child prodigy, and invitations to appear flowed in from all over Europe. In his teens he organized and conducted a large choir in his father’s synagogue, a choir that would sing highly complex choral compositions by Baruch Schor, Solomon Sultzer, Louis Lewandowsky, Avraham Berkovitz Kalechnik, Joseph Goldstein, Nissan Belzer, David Novakowsky and Eliezer Mordechai Gerovitsch. He studied piano at the music school of the great Ukrainian pianist and composer, Nikolai Tutkovski, and composition at the Kiev Music Conservatory under the famous composer Reinhold Gliere. In those years Glantz traveled numerous times as a delegate to congresses of the He’Chalutz movement and to World Zionist Congresses. He also assumed the position of chief editor of the Labor Zionist newspaper Ard Un Arbeit. However in July 1926, due to his intensive Zionist activism, and the growing antagonism towards the Jews from the Romanian regime in Besarabia, Glantz decided to leave Eastern Europe. His plan was to immigrate to Palestine, which was then governed by the British, in order to join those of his Zionist friends who had already immigrated to Israel. However, he first traveled to the United States to record his early compositions. When he appeared i
top songs
albums
The Man Who Spoke to God
▥
Mysteries of the Sabbath: Classic Cantorial Recordings: 1907-47
THE FIRST S'LIHOT: The Entire Midnight Service According to Orthodox and Traditional Ritual
▥
Jewish Nostalgy
▥
Golden Voices of Israel Sings and Prays for Sabbath
▥
The Promised Land
▥
Mysteries Of The Sabbath: Classic Cantorial Recordings: 1907-1947
▥
Mendelssohn, Felix: Cello Sonata No. 2 / Ben-Haim, P.: Songs Without Words (The Cantorial Voice of the Cello)
▥
The Art of the Cantor Part 2
▥
Sampler - Mysteries of the sabbath - Classic cantorial recordings 1907-1947
▥
Leil Shimurim - a Collection of Prayers for Passover and the Omer Counting Days
▥
The Glory of Shabbath - Songs and Prayers