Jamil Bachir or Bashir ( ar, جميل بشير; b.

Mosul Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second large ...

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, 1920; d.

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, September 24, 1977) was an Iraqi musician and expert

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player. The Iraqi Music Institute was opened in 1936, under administration of

Hanna Petros Hanna Petros ( syr, ܚܢܐ ܦܛܪܘܣ, ar, حنا بطرس), was an Iraqi Chaldean composer and a scholar. He wrote numerous books and treatises on oriental music, Iraqi Maqams and Syriac hymnody. He also established a renowned conservatory in ...

(1896–1958), then in 1937 Sherif Muheddin Haydar and other professors joined the faculty of the Institute; Jamil Bashir was enrolled to learn oud with Sherif Muheddin Haydar and

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with

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. He finished his oud studies in 1943 and his violin study in 1946, and then worked at the Institute as an oud and violin teacher. He also wrote a two-volume oud method. Jamil Bashir was also a good singer, but he did not continue singing as he preferred the oud. He died in London on 24 September 1977.

Personal life

Born in Mosul to an ethnic Assyrian/Syriac

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family, his father was a singer and a well-known oud player who started to teach him the oud when he was around six years old. Jamil Bashir is the brother of oud player

Munir Bashir Munir Bashir, ( ar, منير بشير, syr, ܡܘܢܝܪ ܒܫܝܪ) (1930 – September 28, 1997) was an Iraqi Assyrian musician and one of the most famous musicians in the Middle East during the 20th century and was considered to be the supreme m ...

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Rare Recordings of Jamil Bashir 1921 births 1977 deaths People from Mosul Iraqi oud players Iraqi Assyrian people 20th-century Iraqi male singers Iraqi expatriates in the United Kingdom {{Iraq-singer-stub

Personal life

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