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unusual facts about liturgical music



Samuel Naumbourg

After having held the office of chazzan and reader at Besançon and directed the choir of the synagogue at Strasburg, he was called, in 1845, to officiate in the synagogue of the Rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth at Paris, where he became professor of liturgical music at the Séminaire Israélite.


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Blue Star Wicca

Tzipora Klein (née Katz), who had joined the coven in 1977, and with her then-husband Kenny Klein, left on a folk music tour after the 1983 release of their cassette Moon Hooves in the Sand, which contained Blue Star liturgical music.

Bob Dufford

(born 1943) is a Jesuit priest, a former member of the St. Louis Jesuits musical group, and a composer of Catholic liturgical music.

Bridgeport, Michigan

David Haas, American author and composer of Contemporary Catholic liturgical music.

Catechetical Centre, Karachi

The Centre also organises programs on liturgical music like the one titled "Proper Use of Music in Worship" on Jan. 27, 2007, at the Holy Family Hospital Auditorium.

Gaetano Gaspari

He composed mainly liturgical music, including the Offertorium of the Messa per Rossini.

Joseph Gelineau

Joseph Gelineau (Champ-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire, 31 October 1920 – Sallanches, 8 August 2008) was a French Catholic Jesuit priest and composer, mainly of modern Christian liturgical music.

Kedrov

Nikolay Kedrov, Sr., Russian composer of liturgical music (1871-1940)

Nikolay Kedrov, Jr., Russian composer of liturgical music (1905-1981)

Plainsong

But, since Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, use of the Tridentine rite has increased; this, along with other papal comments on the use of appropriate liturgical music, is promoting a new plainsong revival.

St Thomas's Abbey, Brno

Czech composer Pavel Křížkovský also took monastic vows at Brno, teaching liturgical music from 1848 until 1872, and from 1865 he formed an ongoing musical collaboration with the young (lay) composer Leoš Janáček who had come from his home in Hukvaldy and begun as a choirboy at the monastery.