Druckman, Jacob (1928-1996), an American composer, won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for music for his orchestral composition Windows (1972). In addition to his works for orchestra, Druckman is known for his experiments with electronic music on tape. Some of his electronic compositions incorporate literal quotations from the text and music of works by such composers as Richard Wagner, Claude Debussy, and Luigi Cherubini. Some of Druckman’s compositions include spoken passages recorded on tape by actors.
Druckman’s first electronic composition was Animus I (1966). His other works include Duo (1949), Animus II (1968), Animus III (1969), Lamia (1974), Animus IV (1977), Aureole (1979), Prism (1980), Athanor (1986), That Quickening Pulse (1988), and With Bells On (1993).
Jacob Raphael Druckman was born in Philadelphia. He received a B.S. degree from the Juilliard School of Music in 1953 and an M.S. degree from Juilliard in 1956. Druckman taught at Juilliard from 1956 to 1972. He was an associate of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in the middle and late 1960’s and a professor of composition at Yale University from 1976 to 1996. He had also served as guest conductor for several major symphony orchestras.
