Abel Ehrlich


Abel Ehrlich was an Israeli composer. In 1997, Ehrlich won the Israel Prize for Music.

Biography

Erlich was born in 1915 in Cranz, East Prussia. In 1934 he and his family fled from Nazi Germany to Yugoslavia and pursued music studies in Zagreb. He left Yugoslavia in 1939 and, after a short stay in Albania, immigrated to Israel.
In Israel he continued his studies at the Eretz-Israel Conservatory in Jerusalem.
He taught at various institutes such as the Israel Conservatory, the Rubin Academy of Music, Jerusalem; the Rubin Academy of Music, Tel Aviv; Bar-Ilan University and Oranim Academic College.
He died on October 30, 2003 in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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