The Secular Sulzer: Art Song & Popular Music of the First Modern Cantor, with Cantor Matt Austerklein

Lecture #65 in Joshua Horowitz’s series, The Promiscuous World of Jewish Music

The Secular Sulzer: Art Song & Popular Music of the First Modern Cantor, with Cantor Matt Austerklein

Monday, January 10, 2022, 11am Pacific Time (Please calculate your own time zone)

Length: 1 – 2 hours

Zoom Meeting ID: 967 8901 9038

Password: 156230

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Donations to Josh Horowitz are accepted and appreciated, but not required.

Salomon Sulzer (1804-1890) is most known as the first modern cantor, but less known for his prolific secular career — both as a Viennese classical singer and as a composer of art songs, political anthems, and even kids’ music. This lecture/mini-concert will explore and demonstrate Sulzer’s long- forgotten secular music and seek the meaning of Jewish music and musicianship within public life. 

Matt Austerklein is a multi-genre artist of contemporary and classic Jewish music. A congregational cantor for over a decade, Matt has worked in diverse pastoral, lifecycle, and educational settings to cultivate faith through Torah and music. He serves as a mentor to new and student cantors and works on projects shaping the Jewish musical future. He is currently Ph.D. candidate in Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg University (Germany), where he is writing his dissertation on the professionalization of Ashkenazi cantors in early modern Europe.

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