GILBOA, JACOB

GILBOA, JACOB (1920– ), Israeli composer. Born in Czechoslovakia, he studied architecture in Vienna and continued his studies at the Haifa Technological Institute after immigrating to Israel in 1938. Later he studied composition with josef tal and paul ben-haim and graduated from the Jerusalem Music Academy and Teachers Seminary in 1947. In 1963 he took classes with Stockhausen and Pousseur at the Cologne new music courses. His early style was post-Romantic with Mediterranean elements and later he combined avant-garde style with Oriental elements. His style is unique and difficult to define. Among his many awards were the Israel Composers and Authors Association Prize on four occasions and the Prime Minister's Award in 1983. He has also represented Israel at the ISCM festival four times (1969, 1973, 1978, 1989). His works include Seven Little Insects for piano (1955); Chagall Windows (1965); Crystals (1967); From the Dead Sea Scrolls (1972); Cedars (1972); Reflections on 3 Chords of Alban Berg for piano (1979), 3 Lyric Pieces in Mediterranean Style for orchestra (1984), Steps of Spring for children's/women's chorus (1986); and works with tape such as 3 Vocalises for Peter Breughel, (1979) and The Grey Colours of Käthe Kollwitz (1990). Gilboa also wrote lyrics for many Israeli folk songs. -ADD. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Grove Music Online; O. Tourny, Jacob Gilboa: Compositeur israelien contemporain (1988). (Uri (Erich) Toeplitz and Yohanan Boehm / Gila Flam and Israela Stein (2nd ed.)