Philip Herschkowitz

Not to be confused with Philip Hershkovitz.
Philip Herschkowitz
Philip Herschkowitz
Background information
Born7 September 1906
Iași, Romania
Died5 January 1989(1989-01-05) (aged 82)
Vienna, Austria
Occupation(s)composer and music theorist

Philipp Herschkowitz (Romanian: Filip Herșcovici; Russian: Филипп Гершкович, Filipp Gershkovich) (7 September 1906 – 5 January 1989) was a Romanian-born composer and music theorist, pupil of Alban Berg and Anton Webern, who spent 47 years, from 1940 to 1987, in the Soviet Union.