Jacob Gilboa

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Jacob Gilboa 1973

Yehuda Jacob Gilboa (born May 2, 1920 in Košice , Czechoslovakia as Erwin Goldberg ; died May 9, 2007 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli composer.

Life

Erwin Goldberg, son of Samuel Goldberg and Rachel Aranka Korach, grew up in Vienna , where his parents had lived since 1912. After Austria's annexation in 1938, he had to emigrate to Palestine , where he first began to study architecture in Haifa at the Institute for Technology . From 1944 he was a student of Josef Tal (composition) and Paul Ben-Haim (orchestration) at the Jerusalem Academy for Music and Dance and completed his studies in 1947. Immediately after immigrating to Palestine, he became a member of the Hagana , which was transferred to the Israeli army in 1948; In 1948/49 he took part in the Israeli War of Independence . From 1950 he worked as a civil servant in the Tel Aviv city council until he was able to live as a freelance composer in 1980.

Until the early 1960s, his music was tonal with the Middle Eastern influence typical of Israel at the time. His participation in the courses for new music in the studio for electronic music in Cologne in 1963 and 1964 under Karlheinz Stockhausen , Henri Pousseur and Aloys Kontarsky was formative for his further work .

At the annual meetings of the International Society for New Music he was the representative of Israel in 1969, 1973, 1978 and 1989.

Awards

  • Lieberson Prize from the Israeli Composers' Union of Israel (1969)
  • Joel Engel Prize of the City of Tel Aviv (1973)
  • Israel Prime Minister's Prize for Music (1983)

Works

Compositional work (selection)

  • 12 Jerusalem stained glass windows by Chagall for five female voices and instruments (1966; probably his best-known composition)
  • Thistles for chamber ensemble
  • Horizons in Blue and Violet , ballet (1969)
  • Pastels for two pianos (1970)
  • Seven little insects , piano suite
  • The Gray Colors of Käthe Kollwitz for mezzo-soprano, chamber orchestra and tape (1990).

Fonts

  • Fashions and Styles in New Music . In: Israel 3/1981

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