[Chiusa Undanè tokef], Rito Tedesco - Giuseppe Bassani

[Chiusa Undanè tokef], Rito Tedesco - Giuseppe Bassani

EF

Undané tokef

ase lemaan schemah

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 series of transcriptions from the repertoires 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. http://digital-library.cdec.it/cdec-web/persone/detail/person-474/bassani-giuseppe.html

1933

Ferrara

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

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

1933

Manuscript transcription of a single melodic line. Heading: "Chiusa Undanè tokef". Tempo: Adagio ma non troppo. Text transliterated in Latin characters beneath the notes.

Setting associated with the closing of Unetane Toqef for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. The words under the melody belong to the closing part of the text before the beginning of the qedushah.