Alois Kaiser (November 10, 1840 - 1908) was an American chazzan and composer, considered to be the founder of American cantorate. Kaiser was born in Szobotist (Slovak: Sobotište), Hungary. He received his early education in the religious school of the Vienna congregation under Dr. , and then studied at the Realschule and the in Vienna. From the age of 10, he sang in the choir of Salomon Sulzer, and in 1859, became an in , one of the suburbs of Vienna (now a part of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus, the 15th Viennese district). From 1863 to 1866, he was cantor at the Maisel Synagogue at Prague.