Salomon Sulzer. Schir Zion: Gottesdienstliche Gesänge der Israeliten.

Following Salamone Rossi in the early 17th-century, Cantor Salomon Sulzer (1804–90) was the first Jewish composer, to produce a significant repertory of Jewish (liturgical) works in the tradition of Western music. He reformed cantorial music at Vienna’s City Temple bringing into motion the foundation for the Viennese rite, a musical development with a lasting effect on Jewish music both inside and outside the synagogue. Sulzer’s arrangements went hand in hand with the aesthetics that urban Jews were acquiring through their advances in cosmopolitan society as a whole. Indeed Sulzer commissioned non-Jewish composers to contribute to Schir Zion, the most well known of whom was Franz Schubert. (JTS music archive, notes).