Edmond Nathan Yafil (1874 – October 1928) was an Algerian composer.
Biography
Native Jew born in
Algiers in
1874
Events
January–March
* January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx.
* January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time.
* January 3 – Third Carlist War &n ...
, Yafil began, as all the musicians of his time, by attending the
Moorish
The term Moor, derived from the ancient Mauri, is an exonym first used by Christian Europeans to designate the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily and Malta during the Middle Ages.
Moors are not a distinct or ...
cafés of the old
Casbah Algiers places where perpetuated the tradition of
sanaa music, also referred to as
Andalusian classical music
Andalusi classical music ( ar, طرب أندلسي, ṭarab ʾandalusī; es, música andalusí), also called Andalusi music or Arab-Andalusian music, is a genre of music originally developed in al-Andalus by the Muslim population of the region a ...
.
He will collaborate with
Jules Rouanet on the cataloging of sanaa music and in theater with
Mahieddine Bachtarzi
Mahieddine Bachtarzi (15 December 18976 February 1986) was an Algerian singer of opera (tenor), actor, writer and director of the TNA (Théâtre National Algérien). He was also the author of some 400 musical works, with a career that spanned over ...
and
Ali Sellali.
He is buried at the
St. Eugene Cemetery
St. Eugene Cemetery ( ar, سانت يوجين مقبرة) is one of the most famous cemeteries in Algeria. It is situated in a suburb of the city of Algiers in the Communes of Algeria, commune of Bologhine. Covering an area of 14.5 hectares, i ...
.
Bibliography
* Répertoire de musique arabe et maure : collection de mélodies, ouvertures, noubet, chansons, préludes, etc. / recueillie par Edmond-Nathan Yafil, sous la direction de
Jules Rouanet.
References
External links
Biography*
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Christopher Silver, ''Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa'' (Stanford University Press, 2022).
1874 births
1928 deaths
Jewish musicologists
Algerian songwriters
Algerian composers
People from Casbah
Algerian Jews
19th-century musicologists
People of French Algeria
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