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[[File:Warsaw Cantor Moshe Koussevitzky at the Warsaw Ghetto 10th Anniversary Memorial Meeting in New York City.jpg|thumb|Koussevitzky in 1953]]
 
'''Moshe Koussevitzky''' ({{lang-langx|he|משה קוסביצקי}}, {{lang-langx|pl|'''Mosze Kusewicki'''}}; June 9, 1899 in [[Smarhoń]], [[Russian Empire]] – August 23, 1966 in [[New York City]]) was a [[Hazzan|cantor]] and vocalist. A relative of noted conductor [[Sergei Koussevitzky]], he made many recordings in [[Poland]] and the [[United States]].<ref name="Maoz2006">{{Cite web|url=http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/front-page/a-voice-to-make-men-weep/2006/10/25/|title=A Voice to Make Men Weep|last=Maoz|first=Jason|website=The Jewish Press|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/query6djb45XPj?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww://www.jewishpress.com%2Findepth%2Ffront/indepth/front-page%2Fa/a-voice-to-make-men-weep%2F2006%2F10%2F25%2F&date=2015-12-12/2006/10/25/|archivedate=2015-12-13|accessdate=2015-12-13}}<!--|archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6djb45XPj?url=http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/front-page/a-voice-to-make-men-weep/2006/10/25/ was previously incorrectly listed as Jewish Week and with dead URL (Jewish Press former site structure):Maoz, Jason. [http://www.jewishpress.com/content.cfm?contentid=19736 "A Voice To Make Men Weep"], ''[[The Jewish Week]]'', October 25, 2006.--></ref><ref name=Pasternak2003>{{Cite book |author-link=Velvel Pasternak |last=Pasternak |first=Velvel |title=The Jewish Music Companion |publisher=[[Hal Leonard Corporation]] |date=2003 |isbn=978-1-92891824-0 |page=69}}</ref>
 
Moshe Koussevitzky was a [[Tenor|lyric tenor]] with a spectacular and perhaps unparalleled upper register among cantors. Koussevitzky is regarded as among the greatest cantors of the 20th century. Some would place him first among peers, though that distinction is more often given to [[Yossele Rosenblatt]] or [[Gershon Sirota]], both of whom were a generation older than Koussevitzky.
 
== Early life and career ==
Koussevitzky was born in Smarhoń, now located in [[Belarus]], on June 9, 1899; his father, Avigdor, was a music teacher and his mother, Alta, a pianist. He moved to [[Vilnius|Vilna]] in 1920, and served there as cantor at the Sawel Synagogue, and, starting in 1924, at the [[Great Synagogue of Vilna]]. In 1927 or 1928 he became cantor of the Tlomackie Synagogue in [[Warsaw]], succeeding [[Gershon Sirota]]. He soon gained an international reputation, traveling to [[Brussels]], [[Antwerp]], [[Vienna]], [[Budapest]] and [[London]]. In 1934 and 1936, he performed in [[Mandatory Palestine|PalestineIsrael]]. Koussevitzky first performed in the [[United States]] in 1938, at New York's [[Carnegie Hall]].
 
Koussevitzky and his family escaped the [[Nazi Germany|Nazis]] during [[the Holocaust]] by fleeing to the [[Soviet Union]].<ref name="Maoz2006" /><ref name="Pasternak2003" /> During the war years, he performed as an opera singer under the name Mikhail Koswitzky, appearing in [[Boris Godunov (opera)|Boris Godunov]], [[Tosca]] and [[Rigoletto]], and was honored for his contributions to national morale.
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