Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati (1919-1994) was a composer born in Kraków who worked in Israel in the early 1950s and settled in Vienna in 1957. He is known for graphic scores and for open forms he called mobiles, in which the order of the material is not fixed. Haubenstock-Ramati studied with Artur Malawski in Kraków and Józef Koffler in Lviv. He headed the music department of Radio Kraków from 1947 to 1950 and the state music library in Tel Aviv from 1950 to 1956. In Vienna he was an editor at Universal Edition until 1968 and taught composition at the Academy of Music from 1973.