Background
Jakob Gimpel was born in Lvov (then in Polish Galicia, part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, and now Lviv, Ukraine). Gimpel began his piano studies with his father, Adolph, and later studied piano with Cornelia Tarnowska and Eduard Steuermann, and music theory with Alban Berg.
Career
Gimpel made his debut in Vienna, Austria, in 1923, with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux. He played Rachmaninoff"s 2nd Piano Concerto. In 1937, Gimpel helped Huberman to found the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gimpel migrated to New York in 1938 and later moved to Los Los Angeles