Alexander Haim (1915-2012)
Germany / Israel / More info in Wikipedia
Pianist and composer, was born in Berlin.
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Born in Berlin, Germany, 9.8.1915. Studied piano and music theory at the Stern Conservatory. Settled in Israel in 1936. Studied composition with Stefan Wolpe and others. Since 1945, Haim Alexander taught piano, music theory, cembalo, and composition at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem. Among the numerous prizes he won are the Engel prize, I.M.I Prize and the Acum Prize. His compositions have been performed in Israel and abroad.
Web: http://www.biu.ac.il/HU/mu/icl/alexanderhaim.html
Abel Ehrlich and Haim Alexander were both born in Germany in 1915: both were educated secularly as Germans. Ehrlich left Germany in 1936 and lived and studied in Yugoslavia for 2 and a half years. Later he needed to continue his flew from nazism to Albania. He needed to leave (escaping again) in 1939. He had to decide between a possibility of a visa to Uruguay given by their consul (always wondered at this coincidence, since it is the country where I was born and grown up) and Palestine. This last, through a project of rescue of young musicians that got the possibility of emigration, through a music exam (!). Both Ehrlich and Alexander applyed and approved the exam, and came in the same ship to Palestine. Those who didn't pass the exam, remained in Europe, and we can only guess what was their fate... (Angelo Gilardino – email to ClassicalGuitarMailingList, 2004)
Web: http://www.biu.ac.il/HU/mu/icl/alexanderhaim.html
Abel Ehrlich and Haim Alexander were both born in Germany in 1915: both were educated secularly as Germans. Ehrlich left Germany in 1936 and lived and studied in Yugoslavia for 2 and a half years. Later he needed to continue his flew from nazism to Albania. He needed to leave (escaping again) in 1939. He had to decide between a possibility of a visa to Uruguay given by their consul (always wondered at this coincidence, since it is the country where I was born and grown up) and Palestine. This last, through a project of rescue of young musicians that got the possibility of emigration, through a music exam (!). Both Ehrlich and Alexander applyed and approved the exam, and came in the same ship to Palestine. Those who didn't pass the exam, remained in Europe, and we can only guess what was their fate... (Angelo Gilardino – email to ClassicalGuitarMailingList, 2004)