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composer and educator, b. 27^th February 1919 in Kraków, d. 3^rd March 1994 in Vienna. In 1934-1937 he received music education in violin, theory of music, and the basics of composition from Artur Malawski. In 1937 Haubenstock-Ramati took up studies with Józef Koffler, Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, Seweryn Eugeniusz Barbag and Adam Sołtys (conducting) at the Jagiellonian University. In September 1939 he fled with his family to Lviv, where he continued his studies under Józef Koffler. Arrested and imprisoned in 1941 by the Soviet authorities, after the announcement of amnesty for Polish citizens he joined General Władysław Anders’s Polish Army, with which he travelled to Palestine through Iran as an army musician. In 1947 he returned to his home city of Kraków, where he lived till 1950, working in 1947-49 as an editor for “Ruch Muzyczny” music fortnightly, in 1948-50 – as head of the music section of Polish Radio Kraków.

He left Poland in 1950 and settled in Tel-Aviv, where he founded the State Music Library on behalf of the Israeli government. In 1954-56 he lectured in composition at the city’s Academy of Music. His first major success as a composer came in 1955, with the premiere of his Recitativo ed aria (Konzert für Cembalo und Orchester) (1954) at the Donaueschinger Musiktage.

Having left Israel in 1957, he studied musique concrete and electronic music for several months in the Paris studio of Pierre Schaeffer, and in the autumn of the same year he settled permanently in Vienna. He held his first exhibition of Musikalische Grafik in Donaueschingen in 1959. In 1960 he was granted Austrian citizenship. Till 1971 he worked as an editor and consultant for Universal Edition, and in 1973-89 he was a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, where he also headed the Institut für Elektroakustik. He served on the juries of many competitions for composers, and was a guest lecturer at universities and master classes worldwide, e.g. in Darmstadt (1964, 1965), Bilthoven (1967), Buenos Aires (1968), Tel-Aviv (1967-72), Stockholm (1969), and San Francisco (1972).

Updated in May 2007

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