Creator Bio
Eric Werner
1901–1988
Born in Austria, Eric Werner was a musicologist specializing in sacred music. Werner taught at the Saarbrücken Conservatory, as well as the Breslau Jewish Theological Seminary. Upon immigrating to America in 1937, he taught at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati and later founded its School of Sacred Music in Manhattan. Werner also established the musicology department at Tel Aviv University and served as its chair.
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Genealogies of Two Wandering Hebrew Melodies
It is well known that tunes of songs, no less than their texts, often provide an historical mirror of an exceedingly sharp focus. A special category of such songs are the so- called “migrating” or…