İlhan Mimaroğlu

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İlhan Mimaroğlu
Background information
Born	March 11, 1926 Istanbul, Turkey,
Origin	Turkish
Genre(s)	Contemporary, Electronic
Occupation(s)	Composer

İlhan Mimaroğlu is a musician and composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey on 11 March 1926, the son of the architect Kemalletin Mimaroğlu. He graduated from Galatasaray Lisesi (High School) in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York thanks to 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 Varése and Stefan Wolpe. He is an electronic music composer, and also was the producer for Changes One (Mingus) and 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.

1 Partial Discography
- 1.1 For instruments
- 1.2 Electronic Music
2 External links

[edit] Partial Discography

[edit] For instruments

   * Monologlar, for clarinet ve viola.
   * Püç parça, 1952.
   * Pices 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.

[edit] Electronic Music

   * Görsel Çalışma, 1965.
   * Immolation Scene, 1983.
   * Preludes, for magnetic tape, 1966-76.
   * 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.