Paul Ben-Haim

Training under Friedrich Klose, Hans Knappertsbusch and Bruno Walter is recorded. Eliahu Inbal is recorded as having studied under Paul Ben-Haim. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are symphony. Places of work recorded in the authority are Augsburg. Distinctions recorded are Israel Prize and Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• Name — Paul Ben-Haim • Native Name — פאול בן חיים • Born — 5 July 1897 • Birth Name — Paul Frankenburger • Birthplace — Munich, Germany • Died — 14 January 1984 • Place of death — Tel Aviv, Israel • Occupation — Composer

Paul Frankenburger (later Ben-Haim) was born in Munich, Germany. He studied composition with Friedrich Klose and he was assistant conductor to Bruno Walter and Hans Knappertsbusch from 1920 to 1924. He served as conductor at Augsburg from 1924 to 1931, and afterwards devoted himself to teaching and composition, including teaching at the Shulamit Conservatory in Tel Aviv, Israel. • Illustration — Paul Ben-Haim and his wife, Heli, with the writer Max Brod Ben-Haim immigrated to British Mandate of Palestine in 1933 and lived in Tel Aviv, near Zina Dizengoff Square. He Hebraized his name, becoming an Israeli citizen upon that nation's independence in 1948.

Ben-Haim composed chamber music, works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments, and songs. He championed a specifically Jewish national music: his own compositions are in a late Romantic vein with Middle Eastern overtones, somewhat similar to Ernest Bloch. Ben-Haim's Symphony No. 1 premiered in 1941. It is considered the first symphony written in Israel. His students include Eliahu Inbal, Henri Lazarof, Ben-Zion Orgad, Ami Maayani, Shulamit Ran, Miriam Shatal, Rami Bar-Niv and Noam Sheriff. Ben-Haim won the Israel Prize for music in 1957. The archive of Ben-Haim is preserved in the National Library of Israel.