Louis Saladin was a seventeenth-century composer

Composer

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 from Provence

Provence

Provence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...

, France

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. He wrote in the Baroque

Baroque music

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 style and is most remembered for his association with the Provençal Jewish community and the commissioned works he composed for that community.

His Canticum hebraicum, rediscovered by the Israel

Israel

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i musicologist Israel Adler, is his most remembered work today. It celebrates the circumcision

Circumcision

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 of a baby boy and might have been written to appeal to the Gentile

Gentile

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s present at the Jewish ritual.