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Meyer Lyon |
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Lyon, Meyer, 1751-1797 |
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1751 |
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1797 |
Died: 1797, Kingston, Jamaica.
Pseudonym: Leoni.
Lyon was a chorister at the Great Synagogue, Duke’s Place, London, and a public singer either at Drury Lane or Covent Garden. Subsequently he became the first qualified chazan of the English and German Synagogue in Jamaica.
Sources:
Julian, p. 1151
McCutchan, pp. 27-28
Music: LEONI
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/l/y/o/lyon_m.htm
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Myer Lyon (c. 1750, Germany – 1797, Kingston, Jamaica), better known by his stage name Michael Leoni, was a hazzan at the Great Synagogue of London who achieved fame as a tenor opera singer in London and Dublin, and as the mentor of the singer John Braham.
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