[Ohila lael], Rito Tedesco - Giuseppe Bassani

[Ohila lael], Rito Tedesco - Giuseppe Bassani

EF

Ohila lael

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: "Ohila lael". Tempo: Andante. Text transliterated in Latin characters beneath the notes.

Setting of Ochilah Lael, the cantor's petition for permission to pray, traditionally preceding the central High Holy Day Musaf prayers. The manuscript gives no specific festival; the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur classification follows customary liturgical use.