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Kraków

Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...

 – 3 March, 1994, in Vienna

Vienna

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) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv

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 and Vienna.

Haubenstock-Ramati studied composition, music theory

Music theory

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, violin

Violin

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 and philosophy

Philosophy

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 in Kraków and Lemberg from 1937 to 1940. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler

Józef Koffler

Józef Koffler was a Polish composer, music teacher, musicologist and musical columnist.He was the first Polish composer living before the Second World War to apply the twelve tone composition technique .- Biography :...

. From 1947 to 1950 he was head of the music department of Kraków Radio. From 1950 he was a professor at the Tel Aviv Music Academy, where he also led the setting-up of a central music library. In 1957 he was awarded a six-month stipend for the Academy for Musique Concrète

Musique concrète

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. From 1958 he was an editor of new music for Universal Edition

Universal Edition

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 in Vienna. In addition he gave guest lectures and composition seminars in Tel Aviv, Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Darmstadt

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, Bilthoven (the Netherlands

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) and Buenos Aires

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, and from 1973 held a professorship at the Musikhochschule in Vienna.

Haubenstock-Ramati was also a designer and painter.

Selected works

• Bénédictions/Blessings (1954) for soprano und nine instruments
• Mobile for Shakespeare (1960) for voice und six players
• Credentials or «Think, Think Lucky» (1961) for vioce (Sprechgesang) and eight instruments
• Vermutungen über ein dunkles Haus (1964) for three orchestras
• Amerika (1961-1964) - stage work
• Catch I (1968) for harpsichord
• Comédie, Poetics for J. Joyce I und II (1972) for tape and live electronics
• Zweites Streichquartett (1978)
• Ulysses (1979) - ballet
  Ballet
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• Sonate für Klavier, Zweites Streichtrio, Invocations (1990) for chamber orchestra
• Polyphonien (1993) for ensemble

External links

• Examples of Notations by Roman Haubenstock-Ramati
• Roman Haubenstock-Ramati biography and works on the UE website (publisher)
• Biography by Erhard Karkoschka (1971)