Haim Alexander

Haim Alexander (Hebrew: חיים אלכסנדר; August 9, 1915 – March 18, 2012) an Israeli composer and music educator.

Biography Alexander was born in Berlin, Germany on August 9, 1915. He was a student at the Stern Conservatory in his native city but persecution from the Nazi Party forced him to leave in 1936. That same year he emigrated to Palestine. He studied piano and composition with Irma and Stefan Wolpe at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance.

Alexander also did work transcribing tradition Jewish music into musical notation for at the National Sound Archives at the 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. In 1996 he received the ACUM Golden Feather Prize for lifetime achievement.

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, 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