(b. 1924)
American composer. He was born in Vienna. He fled the Nazis in 1938 and settled in Palestine, where he became staff pianist for the BBC Palestine. Later he taught at the Juilliard School in New York and became professor of compo-sition at Brooklyn College. His compositions include settings of the Psalms, and liturgical cantatas such as Kohelet, Ariel and Joseph and His Brothers.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.