NAUMBOURG, SAMUEL (Minister of the Consistorial Temple of Paris). Agudath Shirim / Recueil de Chants Religieux et Populaires des Israelites.

(MUSIC).

Paris

-1874

First edition. Title in French and Hebrew. On title engraving of King David playing his harp. Texts in French; titles in Hebrew. Music pages lithographed. Formerly in the library of Prof. Abraham J. Karp.

Bavarian born Samuel Naumbourg (1817-80) officiated as Cantor for a great many years in Paris’s famous synagogue on rue Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth. This collection of Synagogue melodies combines pieces from the South German tradition with music from the Western Sephardi rite. Naumbourg also included a lengthy introduction, providing a thorough overview of the history of religious Jewish music.