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Kamel El-Remali
Kamel Al Rimali (born 1922) was an Egyptian classical composer.Malcolm Floyd ''Composing the music of Africa: composition, interpretation, and realisation'' El-Remali, Kamel compositions p343 life p342 ''Al-Ahram'' review of this book: chapter by Adel Kamel chapter "Egyptian Composition in the Twentieth Century," : Youssef Greiss (1899-1961), Hassan Rasheed (1896- 1969), Abu Baker Khairat (1910-1963) Aziz El-Shawan (1916-1993), Kamel Al Remali (b1922), Refaat Garana (b1924), Halim El-Dabh (b1921), Gamal Abdel-Rehim (1924-1988), Youssef Aziz (b1946), Rageh Dawoud (b1954), Mona Ghoneim (b1955), Adel Afifi (b1945), Alaaeddin Mustafa (b1947), as well as the author himself. His opera in Arabic ''Hasan Al-Basri'' (Arabic: الحسن البصري) is based on the life of Hasan of Basra Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri, often referred to as Hasan of Basra (Arabic: الحسن البصري, romanized: ''Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī''; 642 - 15 October 728) for short, or as Hasan al-B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt. Given the many varieties of Arabic language, ''Al-Ahram'' is widely considered an influential source of writing style in Arabic. In 1950, the Middle East Institute described ''Al-Ahram'' as being to the Arabic-reading public within its area of distribution, "What ''The Times'' is to Englishmen and ''The New York Times'' to Americans";Middle East Institute, 1950, p. 155. however, it has often been accused of heavy influence and censorship by the Egyptian government. In addition to the main edition published in Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-language editions, one geared to the Arab world and the other aimed at an international audience, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rageh Dawoud
Rageh Sami Daoud ( ar, راجح داود; born November 23, 1954; first name also spelled Ragueh and last name also spelled Dawood) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers. He has composed for piano, voice, and orchestra, and has written a number of film scores. Life and career Rageh Daoud was born in Cairo. He began his studies at the Cairo Conservatoire at the age of nine, later studying composition there with Gamal Abdel-Rahim, graduating in 1977. He also studied piano with Ettore Puglisi. While continuing his piano studies with him, he attended the composition class which the late Gamal Abdel-Rahim had founded at the Conservatoire, where he studied with him composition, the theory of traditional Arab modes and contemporary composition. In 1977 he obtained his diploma in musical composition with honors. He was appointed assistant at the Composition Dept. of the Conservatoire in 1978. In 1981 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1922 Births
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Hasan Of Basra
Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri, often referred to as Hasan of Basra (Arabic: الحسن البصري, romanized: ''Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī''; 642 - 15 October 728) for short, or as Hasan al-Basri, was an early Muslim preacher, ascetic, theologian, exegete, scholar, judge, and mystic. Born in Medina in 642,Mourad, Suleiman A., “al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī”, in: ''Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE'', Edited by: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Hasan belonged to the second generation of Muslims, all of whom would subsequently be referred to as the '' tābiʿūn'' in Sunni Islamic piety. In fact, Hasan rose to become one of "the most celebrated" of the ''tābiʿūn'', enjoying an "acclaimed scholarly career and an even more remarkable posthumous legacy in Islamic scholarship." Hasan, revered for his austerity and support for "renunciation" (''zuhd''), preached against worldliness and materialism during the early days of the Umayyad Cali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opera In Arabic
The history of opera in the Arabic-speaking world is generally viewed to have started from the premiere of Verdi's ''Aida'' in Cairo at the Khedivial Opera House in 1871, though Verdi's opera was sung in Italian. Western operas sung in Arabic Ratiba El-Hefny sung the title role in Cairo in Lehár's ''The Merry Widow'' in Arabic in 1961. This was followed by Verdi's ''La traviata'' in Arabic in 1964 and Gluck's ''Orfeo ed Euridice'' in 1970. This era ended with the 1971 fire at the Khedivial Opera House. On March 6, 2008, at the 8th Al-Ain Classical Music Festival at Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, Polish opera director Ryszard Peryt directed Egyptian musicologist Aly Sadek's translation of Mozart's ''Don Giovanni,'' as performed by soloists, the choir of the Université Antonine, Baabda, Lebanon, and the Warsaw Philharmonic's Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Graca. The project planned to present other Mozart opera in the Arabic language, e.g. ''The Marriage of Figar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaaeddin Mustafa
Aladdin ( ar, علاء الدين, commonly ) (various spellings and transliterations) is a male given name which means "nobility of faith" or "nobility of creed/religion". It is one of a large class of names ending with ad-Din. The name may refer to: Given name * Ala al-Din Husayn (died 1161), king of the Ghurid dynasty from 1149 to 1161 *Ala al-Din Atsiz (died 1214), Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty from 1213 to 1214 * Ala al-Din Ali, last Sultan of the Ghurid dynasty, from 1214 to 1215 *Kayqubad I or Alā ad-Dīn Kayqubād bin Kaykāvūs (1188–1237), Seljuq Sultan of Rûm * Alauddin Sabir Kaliyari (1196–1291), Sufi saint *Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qurashi al-Dimashq, or Ibn al-Nafis (1213–1288), Arab Muslim polymath *Ata-Malik Juvayni (in full: Ala al-Din Ata-ullah) (1226–1283), Persian historian *Al al-Din (died 1312), Muslim Persian military expert who served in Kublai Khan's army *Allauddin Khan (c. 1862–1972), Indian musician * Alauddin Al-Azad (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel Afifi
Adel may refer to: Places United States * Adel, Georgia * Adel, Indiana * Adel, Iowa * Adel Township, Dallas County, Iowa * Adel, Oklahoma * Adel, Oregon * Adel Mountains Volcanic Field, West-central Montana Elsewhere * Adelaide, Australia * Adel, Leeds, England * Adilabad, Telangana, India * Adilabad district, Telangana, India * Al-Adel, Baghdad, Iraq * Adel, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia * Adel Sultanate People * Adel (name), a unisex first name of northern-European origin, or a last name *Adil, an Arabic first name (male) and last name Other uses *Adel (official), a public official in Morocco *Adel, German nobility *Adel, Dutch nobility *Adel, Danish nobility *Adel, Swedish nobility *Adel, Norwegian nobility *Adel, Finnish nobility *Adel, Icelandic nobility *''Adel'', an Egyptian ferry that capsized and sank in May 1963 *Adel, a game character of ''Final Fantasy VIII'' *Adel, a weevil/beetle genus of the Pentarthrini tribe See also *Adelaide (disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Ghoneim
Mona Ghoneim ( ar, منى غنيم; b. 1955; first name also spelled Mauna) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. She is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers. Ghoneim studied piano with E. Puglisi and composition with Gamal Abdel-Rahim at the Cairo Conservatoire beginning in 1962; she graduated with a degree in composition in 1977 and in 1978 with a degree in piano. She holds a doctorate from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and serves as a professor in the Conducting and Composition Department at the Cairo Conservatoire. She is married to Rageh Daoud (b. 1954), who is also an Egyptian composer. She has composed chamber, vocal, and piano music, as well as music for the documentary film ''Desert Safari''. Compositions *Fantasia for piano and string orchestra See also * List of Egyptian composers The following is a list of Egyptian music composers. Pioneers According to the work of the Egyptian mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Youssef Aziz
Yusuf ( ar, يوسف ') is a male name of Arabic origin meaning " God increases" (in piety, power and influence).From the Hebrew יהוה להוסיף ''YHWH Lhosif'' meaning "YHWH will increase/add". It is the Arabic equivalent of the Hebrew name Yosef and the English name Joseph. It is widely used in many parts of the world by Arabs of all Abrahamic religions, including Middle Eastern Jews, Arab Christians, and Muslims. It is also transliterated in many ways, including Yousef, Yousif, Youssef, Youssif, Yousuf and Yusef. Given name Yossef *Yossef Karami (born 1983), Iranian Taekwondo athlete *Yossef Romano (1940–1972), Libyan-born Israeli weightlifter (also known as Joseph Romano or Yossi Romano), killed in the 1972 Munich massacre Youcef *Youcef Abdi (born 1977), Australian athlete *Youcef Belaïli, Algerian footballer * Youcef Ghazali, Algerian footballer * Youcef Nadarkhani, Iranian sentenced to death for Christian beliefs *Youcef Touati, Algerian footballer Yousef *Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel Kamel
Adel Kamel (1942–2003) عادل كامل was a music critic, musicologist and composer. He was one of the writers in ''Watani'' newspaper, the founder of “Panorama” section, a lecturer in Universities in Egypt and abroad, a member of jury in international choir competitions, a member of many international organizations, and also had several publications. He felt that there is something deep in the Coptic music and he was fascinated by many Coptic hymns, beside his studies and appreciation to the classical music in 1991 he was thinking very strongly in both classical and Coptic music. Works *In 1993 he started thinking about his project, which was dealing with Coptic themes arranged in Classical Music forms with 20th-century compositional techniques. *In 1996 he composed “Fugue on a Coptic theme” followed by “Agios”; these two were not only music compositions but they were also a research, in which he had earned a PhD in from the Zoltan Kodaly Pedagogical Insti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamal Abdel-Rehim
Gamal Abdel-Rahim ( ar, جمال عبد الرحيم ) (November 25, 1924 Cairo – November 23, 1988 Königstein/Germany) was a distinguished Egyptian classical music composer, and composition professor. Life and career Abdel-Rahim was born in Cairo to a musical father, and began playing the piano at an early age. His early musical studies were supported by the Music Society of the Faculty of Arts of Cairo University (then called Fuad I University), graduating with a degree in history. In 1950 he began university studies in musicology at the Musikhochschule of Heidelberg in West Germany, deciding on a career as a composer. From 1952 to 1957 he studied composition with Harald Genzmer (a pupil of Paul Hindemith) at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. In 1959, Abdel-Rahim was appointed to teach theory and harmony at the newly opened Cairo Conservatory of Music. He was later appointed head of the composition department there (the first of its kind in the Arab world), which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halim El-Dabh
Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh ( ar, حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, ''Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍab''ʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music. In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music, or musique concrète. From the late 1950s to early 1960s he produced influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Early life El-Dabh was born and grew up in Sakakini, Cairo, Egypt, a member of a large and affluent Coptic Christian family that had earlier emigrated from Abutig in the Upper Egyptian province of Asyut. The family name means "the hyena" and is not uncommon in Egypt. In 1932 the family relocated to the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. Following his father's profession of agriculture, he graduated from Fuad I University (now Cairo University) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
