Call Number: Birnbaum Collection Mus.64 

Attribution: Löw Sänger and Samuel Naumburg  

Place: Germany 

Date: 1840 

Physical Description: Ink on paper; 71 folios ; 1 score ; 30 x 38 cm; autograph manuscript  

Subject: Shabbat; Shavuot; Yom Kippur; Sukkot; Simhat Torah; Purim; Hanukkah; Rosh Hashanah; Pesach 

Description: 

Full title: "Ḥazanut me-kol hashanah Vollständiger Jahrgang der alten Originalmelodien der Sinagoge, nebst recitativen Tonweisen für den Lauten Vortrag aller Gebethe, und den Tabulaturen der Torah & Megilot für die Sabbathe Fest u.Busstage Nach dem Vortrag des Vorsängers Herrn L Sänger in München, in Musick gesetzt von S. Naumburg München d[en] Januar 1840"

Cantor’s manual. This manuscript contains two-hundred and fifty-five items for the whole liturgical year for one voice. This compilation seems to be among the first primarily devoted to notating the traditional “recititaven Tonweisen,” which is presented here as being the joint work of L[öw] Sanger and S. Naumburg.  

Manuscript Link: https://huc.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1061557864