Sorry to disappoint you, Feif Un, but Modzitser and other chassidishe musical traditions and nigunim were very heavily influenced by French military music, as Napoleon’s armies came through (and retreated through) the areas they were in in 1811-1812. Did you ever wonder why chassidishe nigunnim sound so much like marches? because they are marches. The French ” La Marseillaise” the national anthem, is used as a nigun still by Lubavitchers. There’s a sefer called sefer hanigunim that has much of these tunes. Many of them will sound somewhat familiar to classical music aficionados.
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