İlhan Mimaroğlu
| İlhan Mimaroğlu | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 11, 1926 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Origin | Turkish |
| Died |
July 17, 2012 (aged 86) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Contemporary, Electronic |
| Occupations | Composer |
İlhan Mimaroğlu (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈilhan mimaɾˈoːɫu], March 11, 1926 – July 17, 2012) was a musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York supported by a Rockefeller Scholarship. He studied musicology at Columbia University under Paul Henry Lang and composition under Douglas Moore.
During the 1960s he studied in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky[1] and on occasions worked with Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe. His notable students included Ingram Marshall.
He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records, where he created his own record label, Finnadar Records, in 1971.[2] In the same year he collaborated with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing Me a Song of Songmy. He also was the producer for Charles Mingus’ Changes One and Changes Two, as well as Federico Fellini’s Satyricon.
He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971.
İlhan Mimaroğlu died of pneumonia in 2012.[3]
Discography
For acoustic instruments
Albums for solo piano produced by İlhan Mimaroğlu under the Finnadar label:
- Meral Guneyman plays the piano music of Frank Bridge, Anton Webern and Abel Decaux “one of year’s five best” (Fanfare Magazine, Peter Rabinowitz)
- September Moon, a Nocturnal Seascape for orchestra
- Antistrophes for flute and piano
- Deformations for clarinet and piano
- Idols of Perversity for solo viola and string ensemble (1974)
- Monologlar (Monologue) for clarinet and viola (1997)
- Monologue I for unaccompanied clarinet
- Monologue II for unaccompanied violin
- Monologue III for unaccompanied English horn
- Üç parça (1952)
- Pieces Sentimentales for piano
- Anı ve Günce Sonatı for piano
- Rosa for piano (1978)
- Valses ignobles et sentencieuses for piano (World Premiere by Meral Guneyman, pianist, Merkin Hall, New York City, 1986)
- Yaylı dördüller
- Yaylı çalgılar için gece ezgileri
- Sessions for piano (1977)
- String Quartet No.4 "Like There's Tomorrow", with voice obbligato (Janis Siegel, Vocals)
- Still Life 1980 for cello and tape (Finnadar Records)
- Three Pieces for Piano (a) Prelude (b) Waltz (c) Boogie (Finnadar Records) (Musiques Noires-Meral Guneyman,piano solo)
- Music Plus One for violin and tape (Finnadar Records)
Electronic music
- Görsel Çalışma (1965)
- Agony (1965)
- Immolation Scene for voice and tape (1983) (Finnadar Records)
- Preludes for magnetic tape (1966–1976)
- Music for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar
- Le Tombeau d'Edgar A. Poe (1964)
- Intermezzo (1964)
- Bowery Bum (1964)
- Wings of the Delirious Demon (1969)
- Sing Me a Song of Songmy (1971)
- To Kill a Sunrise (1974)
- Tract, a composition of Agitprop Music for electromagnetic tape (1975) (Folkways Records)
- To Kill a Sunrise and La Ruche (1976) (Folkways Records)
- The Offering for tape with pre-recorded voice (Finnadar Records)
Notes
- ↑ Bob Gluck, “Uptown and Downtown, Electronic Music and ‘Free Jazz’, Ankara and New York: Interview with Turkish Composer İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926–2012).”
- ↑ "Interview with İlhan Mimaroğlu of Finnadar Records by Charles Amirkhanian" (audio). radiOM.org (Other Minds Archive). October 10, 1975.
- ↑ Peter Keepnews (July 18, 2012). "İlhan Mimaroğlu, Composer and Producer, Dies at 86". The New York Times. Retrieved July 20, 2012.
References
- Gluck, Bob. “Uptown and Downtown, Electronic Music and “Free Jazz”, Ankara and New York: Interview with Turkish Composer İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926–2012).” eContact! 14.4 — TES 2011: Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium / Symposium électroacoustique de Toronto (March 2013). Montréal: CEC.
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