Moritz Henle

Moritz Henle first name originally Moses ( born August 7, 1850 in Laupheim, † August 24, 1925 in Hamburg) was a cantor, composer and choirmaster.

Life

Henle was active from 1868 in Laupheim and five years later in the newly built synagogue in Ulm as a cantor. In 1876 he passed the second State Teaching Certificate and 1877 the Vorsängerprüfung.

1879 appointed the Rabbi Max Singer Henle to the Hamburg Temple. In Hamburg he learned - in which he had founded new mixed choir - met his future wife, Caroline Herschel Franziska. He created a series of compositions for choral music and conducted 30 years after the introduction of the Sephardic Ashkenazic pronunciation again in worship one. In 1883 he published a hymnal.

Henle worked alongside the Chasan - office as a music writer, trained singers and cantors from. He was co-founder in 1905 of the Professional Association of Jewish cantors in Germany was the later General German cantor Association and its first chairman he was from 1906 to 1919.

Moritz Henle died in 1925 in Hamburg, Caroline Henle was murdered in 1943 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.