Charles Kensington Salaman
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Charles Kensington Salaman (March 3, 1814 - June 23, 1901) was a British pianist and composer.
Salaman was born and died in London
. His music teachers included Charles Neate and William Crotch
, and he became a member of the Royal Academy of Music
at the age of ten. He studied in Paris under Henri Herz
, and returned to London in 1830. He later founded the Musical Society of London. Many of his compositions are musical settings of religious texts. He also wrote Jews as They Are (1885), with the intention of dispelling common myths about Judaism
.
Salaman adapted "He that Shall Endure to the End" from Mendelssohn's
Elijah
as a setting for Psalm 93
(Adonai Malakh), sung on most Friday nights in the sabbath eve service of the London Spanish & Portuguese Jewish
community.
Salaman was born and died in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
. His music teachers included Charles Neate and William Crotch
William Crotch
William Crotch was an English composer, organist and artist.Born in Norwich to a master carpenter he showed early musical talent . The three and a half year old Master William Crotch was taken to London by his ambitious mother, where he not only played on the organ of the Chapel Royal in St....
, and he became a member of the Royal Academy of Music
Royal Academy of Music
The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
at the age of ten. He studied in Paris under Henri Herz
Henri Herz
Henri Herz was a pianist and composer, Austrian by birth, and French by domicile.Herz was born Heinrich Herz in Vienna...
, and returned to London in 1830. He later founded the Musical Society of London. Many of his compositions are musical settings of religious texts. He also wrote Jews as They Are (1885), with the intention of dispelling common myths about Judaism
Judaism
Judaism ) is the "religion, philosophy, and way of life" of the Jewish people...
.
Salaman adapted "He that Shall Endure to the End" from Mendelssohn's
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
Elijah
Elijah (oratorio)
Elijah, in German: Elias, is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn in 1846 for the Birmingham Festival. It depicts various events in the life of the Biblical prophet Elijah, taken from the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings in the Old Testament....
as a setting for Psalm 93
Psalm 93
Psalm 93 is the 93rd psalm in the biblical Book of Psalms. One of the Royal Psalms, Psalm 93-99, praising God as the King of His people.-Judaism:*Is the psalm of the day for the Shir Shel Yom on Friday....
(Adonai Malakh), sung on most Friday nights in the sabbath eve service of the London Spanish & Portuguese Jewish
Spanish and Portuguese Jews
Spanish and Portuguese Jews are a distinctive sub-group of Sephardim who have their main ethnic origins within the Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula and who shaped communities mainly in Western Europe and the Americas from the late 16th century on...
community.