Max Spicker

Max Spicker (August 16, 1858 – October 15, 1912) was a German American organist, conductor and composer.

[1] In 1882 he moved to New York City,[1] where he began conducting the "Beethoven Männerchor" and worked as a reader for the music publisher G.

Victor also recorded his arrangement of the Jacopo Peri aria Funeste piaggie with baritone Reinald Werrenrath in January 1915.

[7] In 1901 Spicker and William Sparger jointly published a Sabbath evening and morning service.

It included works by non-Jewish composers, such as a setting of "S'u Sheorim" based on a melody in Gounod's Faust.