[Adon olam (Simha Tora)], rito spagnolo - Giuseppe Bassani

Title

[Adon olam (Simha Tora)], rito spagnolo - Giuseppe Bassani

Creator

EF

Text Incipit

Incipit as it appears on written source

Adon olam

Community

Ritual

Place in liturgical year

Place in day liturgy

Liturgical unit

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Informant

Informant biographical notes

Born in Ferrara, 18/12/1886. Acted as shaliach tzibbur. Contacted by A.Z. Idelsohn in the early 1930s to provide details on the tedesco tradition in Ferrara, he started a correspondence in which he described the various rituals active in Italy at the time, and in Ferrara in particular, sending to Idelsohn in Cincinnati a seies of transcriptions from the reoertoires of the three Ferrara synagogues, tedesca, spagnola, italiana. The transcriptions were probably written down by a miss Samaya, who taught music at the Jewish school; Bassani at the time of the correspondence was blind, after being wounded in WWI. Arrested in  Ferrara on 05/02/1944, he was killed upon arrival in Auschwitz on 26/02/1944.

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Date of transcription

1933

Place of transcription

Ferrara

Manuscript music source

Personal correspondence: Giuseppe Bassani - A. Z. Idelsohn 1933-1934, December-September

Manuscript author

Manuscript reference

The National Library of Israel, Music Library, Idelsohn Archive, MUS 0004 E 049-053

Manuscript date (if known)

1933

Notes on transcription

Manuscript headed "Rito Spagnolo" and "Adon olam (Simha Tora)". Single melodic line with transliterated text of the opening verse; tempo indication "Mosso", common time, key signature of three sharps.

Notes on music

Setting for Simchat Torah. Classification under Musaf / concluding prayers is inferred from the customary liturgical use of Adon olam; the manuscript does not specify the service.

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Item Relations

This Item Is Referenced By Item: Seroussi, In search of antiquity (article)
This Item Is Referenced By Item: Idelsohn, Traditional songs of the tedesco Jews (article)
This Item Is Part Of Item: Ferrara Scuola Spagnola

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EF, “[Adon olam (Simha Tora)], rito spagnolo - Giuseppe Bassani,” Thesaurus of Jewish-Italian Liturgical Music, accessed October 10, 2026, https://www.jewishitalianmusic.org/thesaurus/items/show/4051.