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Gamal Abdel-Rahim ( ar, جمال عبد الرحيم ) (November 25, 1924 Cairo – November 23, 1988 Königstein/Germany) was a distinguished Egyptian
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Gamal Abdel-Rahim ( ar, جمال عبد الرحيم ) (November 25, 1924 Cairo – November 23, 1988 Königstein/Germany) was a distinguished Egyptian classical music
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composer, and composition professor.
Life and career
Abdel-Rahim was born inCairo
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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
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(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
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, deciding on a career as a composer. From 1952 to 1957 he studied composition with Harald Genzmer
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(a pupil of Paul Hindemith
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) at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
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.
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 he founded in 1971. Abdel-Rahim was quite influential among Egyptian composers of the next generation, as the majority of them studied with him during his time at the Cairo Conservatory.
Abdel-Rahim's style fuses traditional Egyptian musical elements with contemporary European elements, focusing on Egyptian materials in his later works more than in his earlier works. He composed many works for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles, as well as songs and music for film, theater, and ballet. He was awarded the State Prize for Composition, as well as the Order of Arts, from the Egyptian government.
Abdel-Rahim was married to Samha El-Kholy
Samha Amin El-Kholy ( ar, سمحة الخولي; July 27, 1925– January 25, 2006) was a noted Egyptian musicologist. She published widely about the traditional music and contemporary music of Egypt, including several articles about contemporar ...
(1925-2006), a noted Egyptian musicologist and former president of the Academy of Arts
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in Cairo. Abdel-Rahim died in Frankfurt
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, Germany
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.
His notable students include Ahmed El-Saedi
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, Rageh Daoud
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, Mona Ghoneim
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, Khaled Shokry Khaled is a male Arabic name, and may refer to:
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Surn ...
, Sherif Mohie El Din
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, Nader Abbasy, Ali Osman
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, and Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah
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Biography
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.
See also
*List of Egyptian composers
The following is a list of Egyptian music composers.
Pioneers
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References
*El-Kholy, Samha, and John Robison (1993). ''Festschrift for Gamal Abdel-Rahim''. Occasional Paper Series (Fulbright Commission in Egypt), v. 2, no. 2. Cairo: The Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt. .External links
Gamal Abdel-Rahim official site
* by Samha El-Kholy
1924 births 1988 deaths 20th-century classical composers Egyptian composers Musicians from Cairo Egyptian pianists Egyptian classical pianists Cairo University alumni Hochschule für Musik Freiburg alumni 20th-century classical pianists Male classical composers Male classical pianists 20th-century Egyptian male musicians Egyptian expatriates in Germany {{Egypt-bio-stub