Itzikl Kramtweiss (c. 1878 - 1958) or Krantweiss, also known by the anglicized name Isadore Krantweiss, was a Russian-born Americanklezmer musician and recording artist of the early twentieth century. He was leader of the Broder Kapelle, a popular klezmer orchestra in Philadelphia which made recordings for the Victor Recording Company in the late 1920s.[1]
In Philadelphia, where he settled by 1919, he became known as a klezmer clarinetist. It was in 1929 that he finally entered the studio with his own orchestra at Victor Records in Camden, New Jersey and recorded roughly six sides which were sold as the Broder Kapelle.[6][7] These recordings included klezmer bulgars as well as polkas. In the 1930s he remained a popular player in the city's Jewish music circuit.[8] He had a reputation as a "wild character".[9][10] He also gained work due to his birthplace; the TeplykLandsmanshaft regularly hired him and Cornet player Nachman Grossman.[11]
^Spottswood, Richard K. (1990). Ethnic music on records : a discography of ethnic recordings produced in the United States, 1893 to 1942. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 1306. ISBN9780252017186.
^Rubin, Joel E. (2020). New York klezmer in the early twentieth century : the music of Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras. Rochester, NY: Rochester University. p. 92. ISBN9781580465984.
^Netsky, Hankus (2015). Klezmer : Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 41. ISBN978-1-4399-0903-4.
^Sapoznik, Henry (1999). Klezmer! : Jewish music from Old World to our world. New York: Schirmer Books. p. 96. ISBN9780028645742.
^Netsky, Hankus (2015). Klezmer : Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 3. ISBN978-1-4399-0903-4.
^Netsky, Hankus (2015). Klezmer : Music and Community in Twentieth-Century Jewish Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. p. 36. ISBN978-1-4399-0903-4.
