Abel Ehrlich (

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: אבל ארליך; September 3, 1915 – October 30, 2003) was an Israeli

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. In 1997, Ehrlich won the

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for Music.

Biography

Erlich was born in 1915 in Cranz,

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. In 1934 he and his family fled from Nazi Germany to Yugoslavia and pursued music studies in

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. He left

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in 1939 and, after a short stay in Albania, immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. 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;

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and Oranim Academic College.Israeli Music Institute Biography
He died on October 30, 2003, in

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, Israel.

Awards

* In 1972, was awarded a prize of the Alte Kirche Foundation, Boswil, Switzerland, for his work ARPMUSIC. * In 1997, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for music. * He was awarded the ACUM Prize (8 times), the Liberson Prize (3 times) and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers.

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Biography

Awards

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