Jacob Gilboa

Yehuda Jacob Gilboa (May 2, 1920 – May 9, 2007) was born as Erwin Goldberg and was an Israeli composer.

Gilboa was born in Košice, Slovakia. Some years later he lived in Vienna, where he received training in playing the piano. In 1938 he emigrated to Palestine, where he initially studied in Haifa at the Institute for Technology. Starting in 1944 he studied at the Jerusalem Academy of Music with Josef Tal and Paul Ben-Haim. His participation in the Courses for New Music in Cologne in 1963 and 1964 under Karlheinz Stockhausen and Henri Pousseur made a strong impact on his style.

His best-known work is "Twelve Glass Windows of Chagall in Jerusalem", for voice and instruments (1966). In addition, he composed "Thistles", for horn, percussion, piano, and cello (1967), "Pastels" for two pianos, the piano suite "Seven Little Insects" (1956), and "The Grey Colours of Käthe Kollwitz" for mezzosoprano, chamber orchestra, and tape.

He died in Israel.

"Translated from the German Wikipedia"

References

* Eppstein, Ury. "Gilboa, Jacob". "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.