İlhan Mimaroğlu
İlhan Mimaroğlu | |
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| Born | March 11, 1926 Istanbul, Turkey |
| Origin | Turkish |
| Died | July 17, 2012 (aged 86) Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Contemporary, Electronic |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Labels | Finnadar/Atlantic Records |
İlhan Kemaleddin Mimaroğlu (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈilhan mimaɾˈoːɫu], March 11, 1926 – July 17, 2012) was a Turkish American[1][2] musician and electronic music composer.
Biography
He was born in
Forum magazine in the 1950s.[3]
During the 1960s he studied in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center under Vladimir Ussachevsky[4] and on occasions worked with Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe. His notable students included Ingram Marshall.
He worked as a producer for
Changes One and Changes Two, and contributed to the soundtrack of Federico Fellini's Fellini Satyricon
.
He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971.
İlhan Mimaroğlu died of pneumonia in 2012.[6]
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)
- Three Pieces for Piano (a) Prelude (b) Waltz (c) Boogie (Finnadar Records) (Musiques Noires-Meral Guneyman, piano solo)
Magnetic Tape
Most of these works utilize concrete sounds, but there are also occasional electronic elements.
- Görsel Çalışma (1965)
- Agony (1964)
- Preludes for magnetic tape (1966–1976)
- Music for Jean Dubuffet's Coucou Bazar (1973)
- Le Tombeau d'Edgar A. Poe (1964)
- Intermezzo (1964)
- Bowery Bum (1964)
- Wings of the Delirious Demon (1969)
- 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)
Acoustic plus Electronic Sounds (Tape)
- Still Life 1980 for cello and tape (Finnadar/Atlantic Records)
- Music Plus One for violin and tape (Finnadar/Atlantic Records)
- Sing Me a Song of Songmy (1971)
- Immolation Scene for voice and tape (1983) (Finnadar/Atlantic Records)
Notes
- ^ İlhan Mimaroğ̆lu Papers, 1926-2012, Columbia University Libraries, retrieved 6 January 2021,
The collection documents the career and personal life of Turkish-American electronic music composer, record producer, journalist and cultural critic, photographer, and filmmaker İlhan Mimaroğlu (1926-2012). It includes materials from each of Mimaroğlu's professional interests and activities, the bulk of which date from the early 1950s until his death in 2012.
- ^ Istanbulive4 Brings Turkish Music to New York, Turkish Cultural Foundation, retrieved 6 January 2021,
The concert was dedicated to the life and memory of Ilhan Mimaroglu, a Turkish American music producer and electronic music pioneer. The free concert was broadcast live by WFMU and can be listened to here.
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- ^ 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.
External links
- Mimaroglu Discography on Folkways[permanent dead link]
- Finding aid to the Īlhan Mimaroğ̆lu papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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