Jacobi, Frederick (1891-1952)

US conductor and composer. He was a pupil of Bloch and others in the USA and of Juon in Berlin. From 1913 to 1917 he was assistant conductor at the New York Metropolitan Opera House, and later studied the music of the Pueblo Indians in Mexico and Arizona. He was professor of composition in New York from 1924, and taught at Juilliard 1936-50.

Works opera The Prodigal Son (1944); two symphonies (1924, 1948), Indian Dances, The Eve of St Agnes (after Keats), etc. for orchestra; concertos for piano, violin and cello; concerto for piano and strings; Sabbath Evening Service (1931); Two Assyrian Prayers and The Poet in the Desert for voice and orchestra; three string quartets (1924-45), piano quintet Hagiographia, scherzo for wind instruments.