Naftule Brandwein

Naftule Brandwein
Background information
Born1884
Przemyslany, Austria-Hungary
Died1963
GenresKlezmer
InstrumentClarinet

Naftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, (Yiddish: נפתלי בראַנדװײַן, 1884–1963) was an Austrian-born Jewish American Klezmer musician, clarinetist, bandleader and recording artist active from the 1910s to the 1940s. Along with Dave Tarras, he is considered to be among the top klezmer musicians of the twentieth century, and has a continuing influence on musicians in the genre a century later.[1][2][3] Along with Tarras and other contemporaries like Israel J. Hochman, Max Leibowitz and Harry Kandel, he also helped forge the new American klezmer sound of the early twentieth century, which gradually gravitated towards a sophisticated big-band sound.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Sapoznik, Henry (2006). Klezmer! : Jewish music from Old World to our world (2nd ed.). New York: Schirmer Trade Books. pp. 99–109. ISBN 9780825673245.
  2. ^ Jews and American popular culture. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers. 2007. p. 86. ISBN 9780275987954.
  3. ^ Rubin, Joel (2020). New York klezmer in the early twentieth century : the music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. pp. 2–4. ISBN 9781580465984.
  4. ^ Rubin, Joel (2020). New York klezmer in the early twentieth century : the music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. p. 99. ISBN 9781580465984.
  5. ^ Heskes, Irene (1992). Yiddish American popular songs, 1895 to 1950 : a catalog based on the Lawrence Marwick roster of copyright entries. Washington, D.C. pp. xxxiv–xxxv. ISBN 0844407453.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Feldman, Zev (2016). Klezmer : music, history and memory. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 279. ISBN 9780190244514.