Re: Very first klezmer recordings

[klezmer <klezmer...>]

I'm not an historian and this is Yiddish song, by "A Weib" was recorded in
NY, 1901 by Frank Seiden (Columbia 177)

Dena

>As the KI dissertation seems over (for a moment), I ask my question again:
>
>At a lecture on klezmer history I gave recently at a Talmud Tora in Geneva,
>a boy asked me about the very first klezmer tunes ever recorded.
>
>I wasn't able to answer precisely. Was it Mihal Viteazul' Doina & Sirba
>(1905)? H.Steiner's Potpourri of Jewish Melodies (1908)? some Belf's (ca
>1912)?
>
>Thanks for helping.
>
>Michal

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