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Cantor   /kˈæntər/   Listen
Cantor

noun
1.
The musical director of a choir.  Synonyms: choirmaster, precentor.
2.
The official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos.  Synonym: hazan.






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"Cantor" Quotes from Famous Books



... art, a kind Providence sent him a man, who, sternly yet kindly, as the storm subsided, directed the awakening impulse for order and system in his musical studies. This was Theodore Weinlig, who had been cantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, since 1823 and was therefore, so to speak, bred in the spirit and genius of the great Sebastian Bach. He possessed that attribute of a good teacher which leads the scholar imperceptibly ...
— Life of Wagner - Biographies of Musicians • Louis Nohl

... observed that the stalls for the clergy and choristers are generally placed on the two sides of the choir and face each other. The south side is called the {48} "decani side" and the north the "cantoris side," as being, in cathedrals, the respective sides of the dean and the cantor (or precentor). ...
— The Worship of the Church - and The Beauty of Holiness • Jacob A. Regester

... heretofore—a change of feeling that necessarily produced a corresponding slackening of the ties of friendship and interest which had formerly existed between the Prince and his Capellmeister. The opportunity which Bach sought came at length when, in 1723, he was appointed cantor of the Thomas-Schule at Leipzig, and director of the music in the Churches of St. Thomas and St. ...
— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

... Archbishop Ulfsson, and of which the archbishop was chancellor, was at this time in a semi-dormant state. Scarce anything is known either about its professors or about the number of its students. It is probable, however, that Peder Galle, who was cantor of the Upsala Chapter so early as 1504,[12] and whose powers as a theological gladiator will become known to us further on, was one of the professors. Another was Henrik Sledorn,[13] whom Gustavus later made his chancellor. ...
— The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa • Paul Barron Watson



Words linked to "Cantor" :   precentor, hazan, choirmaster, musician, spiritual leader



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