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May 02, 1920 Košice, Košice Region, Slovakia Died on 09 May 2007 (aged 87)
Israeli composer
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About Jacob Gilboa
- Yehuda Jacob Gilboa (Hebrew: ????? ????? ?????) (May 2, 1920 – May 9, 2007), born Erwin Goldberg, was an Israeli composer. Gilboa was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia.
- 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, which changed to include clusters, quarter tones, electronics, and unconventional instrumental combinations (Eppstein 2001; Stockhausen 1971, 196 and photo 27, unnumbered page between 200 and 201). 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 mezzo-soprano, chamber orchestra, and tape. He died in Tel Aviv, Israel. Translated from the German Wikipedia
