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Ilhan Mimaroglu

Ilhan Mimaroglu

Ilhan Mimaroglu has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 27 April 2014. Ilhan Mimaroglu's music has been featured on 11 episodes.

İlhan Mimaroğlu (March 11, 1926 – July 17, 2012) was a musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York supported by 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 Varèse and Stefan Wolpe. His notable students included Ingram Marshall.

He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records, where he created his own record label, Finnadar Records, in 1971. In the same year he collaborated with jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing Me a Song of Songmy. He also was the producer for Charles Mingus’ Changes One and Changes Two, as well as Federico Fellini’s Satyricon.

He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971. İlhan Mimaroğlu died of pneumonia in 2012.

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Ilhan Mimaroglu

Ilhan Mimaroglu has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 27 April 2014. Ilhan Mimaroglu's music has been featured on 11 episodes.

İlhan Mimaroğlu (March 11, 1926 – July 17, 2012) was a musician and electronic music composer. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of the famous architect Mimar Kemaleddin Bey depicted on the Turkish lira banknotes, denomination 20 lira, of the 2009 E-9 emission. He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1945 and the Ankara Law School in 1949. He went to study in New York supported by 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 Varèse and Stefan Wolpe. His notable students included Ingram Marshall.

He worked as a producer for Atlantic Records, where he created his own record label, Finnadar Records, in 1971. In the same year he collaborated with jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on a moving anti-war statement, Sing Me a Song of Songmy. He also was the producer for Charles Mingus’ Changes One and Changes Two, as well as Federico Fellini’s Satyricon.

He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971. İlhan Mimaroğlu died of pneumonia in 2012.

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Agony (Visual Study No. 4 After Ashile Gorky)
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Rifi1973
Swift Feet
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Sub Rosa2013
Bowery Bum (Visual Study No. 3 After Jean Dubuffet)
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Finnadar Records1989
Melody Lost And Found
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Southport Records, The Southport Composers Series2001
Part II
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Folkways Records1975
Fragmentation
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Finnadar Records1973
Sing Me A Song Of Songmy, Part I
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Atlantic1971
Agony
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Turnabout1967
Six Preludes For Magnetic Tape
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Turnabout1967