# Haim Alexander > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Haim_Alexander > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Haim_Alexander.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Alexander > Source revision: 1321300237 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Israeli composer}} '''Haim Alexander''' ([Hebrew](/source/Hebrew): חיים אלכסנדר; August 9, 1915 – March 18, 2012) an Israeli [composer](/source/composer) and music educator. ==Biography== Alexander was born in [Berlin](/source/Berlin), [Germany](/source/Germany) on August 9, 1915. He was a student at the [Stern Conservatory](/source/Stern_Conservatory) in his native city but persecution from the [Nazi Party](/source/Nazi_Party) forced him to leave in 1936.{{Cite encyclopedia |author=Jehoash Hirshberg |date=2001|entry=Alexander, Haim (Heinz) |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=[Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.00532}} That same year he [emigrated](/source/Aliyah) to [Palestine](/source/Mandatory_Palestine). He studied piano and composition with [Irma and Stefan Wolpe](/source/Stefan_Wolpe) at the [Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance](/source/Jerusalem_Academy_of_Music_and_Dance). While a student there he made a living playing jazz piano in cafés. He graduated from the academy in 1945. Alexander joined the faculty of the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance in Jerusalem in 1945. He spent his entire career there where he taught a broad range of subjects that spanned from piano, harpsichord, music theory, music composition, improvisation, and musicology. In the latter subject, he worked as a visiting lecturer at several institutions during his career, including [Tel-Aviv University](/source/Tel-Aviv_University), [Hebrew University](/source/Hebrew_University), the [Institut Jaques-Dalcroze](/source/Institut_Jaques-Dalcroze), the [University of Geneva](/source/University_of_Geneva), and [New York University](/source/New_York_University). Composer [Miriam Shatal](/source/Miriam_Shatal) was one of his students.{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VsYAAAAIAAJ&q=strantz+louise |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |isbn=978-0-9617485-2-4 |language=en}} Alexander also did work transcribing tradition Jewish music into musical notation for at the National Sound Archives at the [National Library of Israel](/source/National_Library_of_Israel) in Jerusalem. He was the recipient of several awards, including the Engel Prize in 1956 and the Artur Rubinstein Prize in 1973. He was given Golden Feather Prize for lifetime achievement by the [Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel](/source/Society_of_Authors%2C_Composers_and_Music_Publishers_in_Israel) (known by the acronym ACUM) in 1996. Alexander died in Jerusalem on March 18, 2012. ==Selected works== *''6 Israeli Dances'', fo piano, 1951 *''Artza [To our Country]'', for orchestra, 1951 *''Ve'kibatzti etkhem [I Will Even Gather You]'', for SATB chorus, 1952 *''Bnot kol [Sound Figures]'', for piano, 1965 *''Nabut'', [ballet](/source/ballet), 1971 *''Tavniot [Patterns]'', for piano, 1973; revised 1975 *''Piano Concerto'', for piano and orchestra, 1982 *''Shirei Ahavah ve'Tzippia [Songs of Love and Expectation]'' (word by Litvin), for soprano and orchestra (1985) *''Metamorphoses on a Theme by Mozart'', for piano, 1990 *''Piano Sonata'', 1994 *''The West-Eastern Bridge'', organ solo, 1998 ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[Hebrew Wikipedia Entry](/source/%3Ahe%3A%D7%97%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%A1%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A8) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060516175516/http://www.imi.org.il/composerInfo.asp?num=11 Israel Music Institute - Biography] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20060918030849/http://grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/music/wolpe/wolpe/Haim_Alexander.html Interview] *[http://www.iba.org.il/bet/?type=1&entity=828993 Haim Alexander's obituary] {{in lang|he}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Haim}} Category:1915 births Category:2012 deaths Category:Israeli composers Category:Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to Mandatory Palestine Category:German emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Category:Composers from Berlin Category:Burials at Har HaMenuchot Category:Immigrants of the Fifth Aliyah Category:Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance alumni --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Haim Alexander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Alexander) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Alexander?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.