Roman Haubenstock - since 1943 Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (Hebrew: רוֹמן האובּנשׁטוֹק-רָמָתִי; 27 February 1919 – 3 March 1994) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna.

Life

Haubenstock-Ramati was born in Tonie (a village near Krakow, to which it was incorporated only in 1941) as a son of Samuel (a farmer) and Regina née Gronner.^[1] He obtained his secondary school-leaving certificate at the Cracow 2nd State St. Jack Gymnasium in 1937. After that he studied composition, music theory, violin and philosophy there from 1934 to 1938, and in Lemberg from 1939 to 1941. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler.^[2]

In 1939, his family fled from the Germans to Lviv, which was incorporated into the Soviet Union as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Due to his multilingualism, he was arrested shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 on charges of espionage and deported to Tomsk via Odessa. There he was amnestied to join General Władysław Anders' Polish Army and arrived in Palestine with the 2nd Polish Corps.

He stayed there for several years and in 1943 he took the second part of his surname "Ramati" - from then on he appeared as Roman Haubenstock-Ramati.

After his coming back to Poland - from 1947 to 1950 he was head of the music department of Kraków Radio, and from 1950 to 1956 he was director of the State Music Library in Tel Aviv.^[3] In 1957 he was awarded a six-month stipend for the Academy for musique concrète.^{[clarification needed]} From 1957 to 1968 he was an editor of new music for Universal Edition in Vienna.^[2] In addition he gave guest lectures and composition seminars in Tel Aviv, Stockholm, Darmstadt, Bilthoven (the Netherlands) and Buenos Aires, and from 1973 held a professorship at the Musikhochschule in Vienna. He died in Vienna in 1994.

Haubenstock-Ramati was also a designer and painter.^[4]

Works