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The great klezmer clarinettist, Naftule Brandwein crossed the maritime border of the USA in April to join his brother Israel who was.
Naftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, (Yiddish: נפתלי בראַנדװײַן, –) was an Austrian-born Jewish American Klezmer musician, clarinetist, bandleader..
Naftule Brandwein
Austrian-born Jewish American musician
Musical artist
Naftule Brandwein, or Naftuli Brandwine, (Yiddish: נפתלי בראַנדװײַן, 1884–1963) was an Austrian-born Jewish AmericanKlezmer 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]
Biography
Early life
Brandwein was born on September 20, 1884, in Przemyslany, Austro-HungarianGalicia (now Ukraine).[7] He was born into a dynasty of klezmer musicians, p