Hanoch (Heinrich) Yaakobi (Jacoby) (March 2 1909 - 13 December 1990) was an Israeli composer and viola player.
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Yaacobi was born in 1909 in Koenigsberg, where he learned to play the viola. During 1927-30 he studied in the Royal Academy of Musical Performing Art (now the Berlin University of the Arts). His composition teacher there was Paul Hindemith. He played in Michael Taube's chamber orchestra in Berlin and from 1930 in the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1933 he was fired due to the Nuremberg Laws. In 1934 he immigrated to Eretz Yisrael as a viola player in the Jerusalem string quartet formed in Jerusalem by Email Hauser. He was one of the founders of the Jerusalem Conservatorium and later taught violin, viola, music theory, and composition in the Rubin Academy for Music and Dance in Jerusalem, and was also the head of the Academy during 1954-1958. During the same years he was also first viola player in the IBA symphony orchestra and often conducted it. Since 1958 he played the viola in Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, which also performed his compositions, until his retirement in 1974. On this year he was resident artist of the Technion, Haifa. After he retired he continnues to teach, play and direct various chamber ensembles.
Hanoch Yakkobi passed away in Tel Aviv on December 1990.
[[Category:Israeli classical violists]] [[Category:Jewish composers]] [[Category:Israeli composers]]