Composer Halim El-Dabh

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Halim El-Dabh

Living place: Egypt

Birthday: 4-3-1921 (103 years old)

Global rank: #63328

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Who is Composer Halim El-Dabh?
Egyptian-born American composer, educator, ethnomusicologist, and musician whose career spanned more than half a century. He was a pioneer in electronic music and was credited with recording the first works of electronic music on tape in 1944. He
recorded his first electronic tape for "Expression of Music". Zaar," an electroacoustic piece of concrete musique. He developed the concepts at the Colombia-Princeton Center for Electronic Music during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He came to the United States in 1950 courtesy of a Fulbright scholarship to study music at the University of New Mexico. His teachers were the celebrities John Robb Donald and Ernst Krenek.

Family life info

He grew up with a large wealthy Coptic family in Sakakini, Cairo, Egypt.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Halim El-Dabh?
He was mainly influenced by the Austrian composer Bela Bartok.

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When was Composer Halim El-Dabh born?
Halim El-Dabh birthday 4-3-1921 (at the age of 103).
Where is Composer Halim El-Dabh's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Halim El-Dabh was born in Egypt. is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. Halim El-Dabh's global rank is 63328 and whose rank is 530 in list of famous Composer.
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Events in 1921 and 4-3

Events in the world in the birth year of Halim El-Dabh

  • Major treaties signed at Washington Disarmament Conference limit naval tonnage and pledge to respect territorial integrity of China.

Birthday Halim El-Dabh (4-3) in history

  • Day 4-3 year 1789: The Constitution of the United States went into effect.
  • Day 4-3 year 1791: Vermont passed the constitution and became the 14th state of the United States.
  • Day 4-3 year 1861: Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated as president.
  • Day 4-3 year 1917: Jeannette Rankin took her seat as the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Day 4-3 year 1933: Frances Perkins, appointed Secretary of Labor, became first woman to serve in the Cabinet.
  • Day 4-3 year 1994: Four Muslim fundamentalists were found guilty in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
  • Day 4-3 year 1999: Retired Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun died in Arlington, Va., at age 90.
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