Hugo Chaim Adler

Hugo Chaim Adler ( born January 17, 1894 in Antwerp, † December 24, 1955 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was a Belgian composer, cantor and choir director, Jewish faith.

Life

Adler was born in 1896, the son of Simon and Emma Adler, born in Antwerp Dahl. He studied at conservatories in Cologne (1915-1916) and Frankfurt ( 1920) and was from 1924 to 1926 a student of the Austrian composer Ernst Toch.

From 1922 to 1938 Adler was once a cantor (from 1930 as chief cantor ) and teacher of Hebrew and music at the main synagogue in Mannheim. He translated set to music by Franz Rosenzweig Hebrew poetry. After he had been detained following the Kristallnacht in November 1938 in the Dachau concentration camp, he fled in late 1938 in the United States, where he served as cantor at Temple Emanuel in Worcester, Massachusetts, active from 1939 to 1955.

Adler was married to Selma Rothschild, with whom he had two children.

Works (selection)

• Light and people, 1928
• To Zion, 1930
• Job, 1932
• Shirah Chadashah, 1936
• Akedah, 1938
• Jonah, 1944
• Nachlath Israel, 1952
• Marcello's 19th psalm, 1953