İlhan Mimaroğlu
| İlhan Mimaroğlu | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 11, 1926  Istanbul, Turkey, |
| Origin | Turkish |
| Genres | Contemporary, Electronic |
| Occupations | Composer |
İlhan Mimaroğlu is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on March 11, 1926, 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 and on occasions worked with Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe. He is an electronic music composer, and 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.
He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records and collaborated with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing Me a Song of Songmy in the same year.
His notable students include Ingram Marshall.
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[edit] Discography
[edit] For Acoustic instruments
- 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
- Yaylı dördüller
- Yaylı çalgılar için gece ezgileri
- Sessions for piano (1977)
- String Quartet No.4 "Like There's Tomorrow", with voice obbligato
- Still Life 1980 for cello and tape (Finnadar Records)
- Three Pieces for Piano (a) Prelude (b) Waltz (c) Boogie (Finnadar Records)
- Music Plus One for violin and tape (Finnadar Records)
[edit] 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)
