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Lazar Weiner

Lazar Weiner was a Russian and American composer of Jewish music. He also worked as conductor, vocal coach, and accompanist.

Biography
Lazar Weiner was born in Cherkasy in the Russian Empire on October 24, 1897. He was trained as a pianist at the Kiev Conservatory where he began his studies at the age of 13. He studied music composition in New York with Frederick Jacobi and Robert Russell Bennett, and was also well known vocal coach in Manhattan. The composer Yehudi Wyner was his son. ==Works==
Works
Weiner composed more than 200 art songs as well as Yiddish and Hebrew cantatas and full synagogue services. He wrote several cantatas, among them Legend of Toil (1933), Fight for Freedom (1943), and To Thee, America (1944). He also wrote the music to the Yiddish play Generations of Green Fields (1974). ==References==
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