Roman Haubenstock-Ramati

Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, born Roman Haubenstock (; 27 February 1919 – 3 March 1994) was a composer and music editor who worked in Kraków, Tel Aviv and Vienna. Life Haubenstock-Ramati was born in Tonie (a village near Krakow, to which it was incorporated only in 1941) as a son of Samuel (a farmer) and Regina née Gronner. He obtained his secondary school-leaving certificate at the Cracow 2nd State St. Jack Gymnasium in 1937. After that he studied composition, music theory, violin and philosophy there from 1934 to 1938, and in Lemberg from 1939 to 1941. Among his teachers were Artur Malawski and Józef Koffler. In 1939, his family fled from the Germans to Lviv, which was incorporated into the Soviet Union as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Due to his multilingualism, he was arrested shortly before the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 on charges of espionage and deported to Tomsk via Odessa. There he was amnestied to join General Władysław Anders’ Polish Army and arrived in Palestine with the 2nd Polish Corps. He stayed there for several years and in 1943 he took the second part of his surname “Ramati” - from then on he appeared as Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. After his com