İlhan Mimaroğlu facts for kids
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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 (born March 11, 1926 – died July 17, 2012) was a talented musician and composer from Turkey who also became an American citizen. He was especially known for his work with electronic music.
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About İlhan Mimaroğlu
İlhan Mimaroğlu was born in Istanbul, Turkey. His father was Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, a very famous architect. You can even see his father's picture on some Turkish lira banknotes!
İlhan finished Galatasaray High School in 1945. He then studied law at Ankara Law School, graduating in 1949. After that, he moved to New York to study music. He received a special scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to help him. At Columbia University, he studied music history and how to compose music.
His Work in Electronic Music
In the 1960s, İlhan Mimaroğlu studied at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center. This was a special place for creating new sounds with electronics. He learned from important composers like Vladimir Ussachevsky. Sometimes, he even worked with famous musicians like Edgard Varèse.
İlhan Mimaroğlu also worked as a producer for Atlantic Records. This is a big music company. In 1971, he started his own record label there called Finnadar Records.
He helped create many interesting music projects. For example, he worked with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on an anti-war album called Sing Me a Song of Songmy. He also produced albums for the jazz legend Charles Mingus. İlhan Mimaroğlu even helped with the music for a movie called Fellini Satyricon.
In 1971, he received a special award called the Guggenheim Fellowship for his music compositions. This award helps artists and scientists with their work.
İlhan Mimaroğlu passed away in 2012 from pneumonia.
His Music Recordings
İlhan Mimaroğlu created many different kinds of music. Here are some of his works:
Music for Regular Instruments
These are pieces made for instruments like pianos, flutes, and violins.
- 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
- Three Pieces for Piano (a) Prelude (b) Waltz (c) Boogie
Music Using Magnetic Tape
These works often use "concrete sounds." This means sounds recorded from real life, like footsteps or nature, which are then changed and put together. They also include electronic sounds.
- 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)
- To Kill a Sunrise and La Ruche (1976)
- The Offering for tape with pre-recorded voice
Music Combining Instruments and Electronic Sounds
These pieces mix live instruments with sounds created or changed on tape.
- Still Life 1980 for cello and tape
- Music Plus One for violin and tape
- Sing Me a Song of Songmy (1971)
