Jacob Gilboa

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

Life

Gilboa, son of Samuel and Rachel Aranka, born Korach, grew up in Vienna, where he received his first piano education and training. After the annexation of Austria on 12 March 1938, he was forced to emigrate to Palestine, where he first began to study architecture in Haifa at the Institute of Technology. From 1944 he was at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance students of Josef Tal (composition) and Paul Ben -Haim ( orchestration ) and completed his studies in 1947. Immediately after his immigration to Palestine, he became a member of the Haganah, which passed in the Israeli army in 1948; 1948/49, he took part in the Israeli War of Independence. From 1950 he worked as an official of the municipality of Tel Aviv, until he could live as a freelance composer in 1980.

Until the early 1960s, his music was tonal with Israel then typical middle eastern influence. Characteristic of his future work was to attend the Course for New Music in the Studio for Electronic Music in Cologne in 1963 and 1964 under Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur and Aloys Kontarsky.

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

Awards

• Lieberson Award from the Israel Composers' Association of Israel (1969 )
• Joel Engel Prize of the city of Tel Aviv ( 1973)
• Price of the Israeli Prime Minister of Music (1983 )

Works

Composing (selection)

Writings

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