Haim Alexander (

Hebrew Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...

: חיים אלכסנדר; August 9, 1915 – March 18, 2012) an Israeli

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

Biography

Alexander was born in

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in 1915. In 1936, he

emigrated Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country). Conversely, immigration describes the movement of people into one country from another (to permanentl ...

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. He studied composition with Irma and Stefan Wolpe before graduating from the

Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance ( he, האקדמיה למוסיקה ולמחול בירושלים), is a school for the music and the performing arts in Jerusalem. It is located on the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusa ...

in 1945. Composer

Miriam Shatal Miriam Shatal (מרים שתל; December 12, 1903 - 2006) was a Dutch-Israeli biologist, painter and composer of choral works. Early life and education Shatal was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, as Marianne Schifra "Jannie" Pinkhof. Miriam was t ...

was one of his students. He died in Jerusalem in 2012.

Awards

He won the Engel Prize, the

Israel Music Institute The Israel Music Institute (IMI) is the first publicly owned music publishing house in Israel. It is devoted primarily to the publication of Israeli art music, but also publishes books and booklets on Israeli music and composers, CDs of Israeli ar ...

Prize and the ACUM prize.

References

* Hebrew Wikipedia Entry
Israel Music Institute - BiographyHaim Alexander's obituary
1915 births 2012 deaths Israeli composers Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine People from Berlin {{Israel-bio-stub