Haubenstock-Ramati, Roman (1919-1993)

Polish-born Israeli composer. His first works are conservative in idiom; he later moved on to serial and aleatory techniques.

He studied composition in Kraków and Lwów (Lviv) from 1937 to 1940. From 1947 to 1950 he was music director of Radio Kraków and then emigrated to Israel, where he became director of the music library in Tel-Aviv. In 1957 he moved to Paris, France, living also in Vienna, Austria, where he worked for Universal Edition.

Works Stage opera Amerika (after Kafka, 1964); ballet Ulysses (1977).

Orchestral La Symphonie des timbres for orchestra; Vermutungen über ein dunkles Haus for three orchestras; Papageno's Pocket-size Concerto for glockenspiel and orchestra (1955); Recitativo and Aria for cembalo and orchestra; Sequences for violin and orchestra; Petite Musique de nuit, mobile for orchestra (1958).

Vocal and instrumental Blessings for voice and nine players; Mobile for Shakespeare for voice and six players (1960); Jeux for six percussion groups; concerto for strings (1977); Interpolation, mobile for solo flute; Ricercari for string trio.