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Halim El-Dabh
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Born
March 4
,
1921
·
Cairo, Egypt
Died
September 2
,
2017
·
Kent, Ohio, USA
Birth name
Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh
Mini Bio
Halim El-Dabh was born on March 4, 1921 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a composer, known for
Herostratus (1967)
and
Great Performances: Dance in America (1976)
. He was married to Deborah. He died on September 2, 2017 in Kent, Ohio, USA.
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Deborah
(his death, 3 children)
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Emeritus professor at Kemt State U and composer of music for
Martha Graham
's ballets.
From the late 1950s to early 1960s he produced influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center.
He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music.
In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music, or musique concrète.
He was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades.
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