Offenbach, Isaac, -1850

LC control no.	n 79013860
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Offenbach, Isaac, -1850 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Eberst, Isaac Juda, -1850 Offenbach, Isaac Offenbach, J. (Juda), -1850 Offenbach, Isaac, d. 1850
Death date	1850
Found in	Cantica Hebraica [SR] 1977 (a.e.) label (Isaac Offenbach) MGG (under Jacques: father Isaac Juda Eberst (der "Offenbacher") Isaac Offenbach und sein Sohn Jacques, oder, "Es ist nicht alle Tage Purim," 1998: p. xi (Isaac (Ben Juda) Eberst (1779/81-1850), who called himself Offenbach after 1808) p. 7 (official birthdate is Oct. 26, 1779, but other sources give his birthdate as Mar. 1780; he wrote in 1842 that he was 18 in 1799, hence born in 1781) p. 87 (d. Paris, Apr. 26, 1850) Jewish Music Resource Center, www site viewed May 23, 2019 Isaac Offenbach (born Isaac Juda Eberst, was born in Offenbach near Frankfurt. He left his hometown in 1799 to travel as a wandering musician. In his travels he picked up the epithet “der Offenbacher” which he later adopted as his official surname. In 1802, he settled in Duetz where he worked for many years as a saloon musician. Offenbach moved to Cologne in 1816 where he was employed as a music teacher, and later as a local hazzan ... Isaac Offenbach was Father to ten children, among them the famous composer Jacques Offenbach. Offenbach was a noted composer of synagogue and secular music ... Offenbach was also a recognized writer, editor and translator. He published a Haggadah with a German translation, an appendix of original and traditional melodies (1838))
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