Frederick Jacobi

[1] He also served as the director of the American section of the International Society for Contemporary Music and was a founding member of the League of Composers.

In his twenties Jacobi studied music and composition under such masters as Isidor Philipp of the Paris Conservatory, Rafael Joseffy, Paolo Gallico, Ernest Bloch and Rubin Goldmark in New York, and Paul Juon in Berlin.

Irene would go on to become an accomplished concert pianist and would play piano parts in many performances and recordings of Jacobi's works.

His interest in this genre began with a 1930 commission from Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York for a sabbath evening service.

Although he had not been religiously educated as a child, this experience affected him permanently, and thereafter the Bible influenced all of his music, secular and liturgical.

Baltimore Sun critic, Florestan Croche, described Jacobi's style as having "a sense of the drama which is always aristocratic, introspective, and personal, and never allowed to become theatrical.