Hanoch Jacoby

Hanoch (Heinrich) Jacoby (March 2, 1909 – 13 December 1990) was an Israeli composer and viola player.

Hanoch Heinrich Jacoby was born on March 2, 1909, in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia).

In the collection "Songs With Piano Accompaniment" (שירים בליווי פסנתר) he applied Gregorian modes to Israeli folk music.

He wrote the cantata "A Day Will Come" (עוד יבוא יום) to a poem by the Labor Zionist ideologue A. D. Gordon.

In 1948 the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra performed his overture based on the melody of the traditional Hanukkah song Ma'oz Tzur.

In 1975, as a resident artist in the Technion, he wrote Mutatio, a piece based on the traditional Rosh Hashanah chants of Kurdish and Iraqi Jews.