İlhan Mimaroğlu
İlhan Kemaleddin Mimaroğlu was a Turkish American musician and electronic music composer.
Biography
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. He published articles in the Forum magazine in the 1950s.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 trumpeter Freddie Hubbard on an anti-war statement, Sing Me a Song of Songmy. He also was the producer for Charles Mingus’ Changes One and Changes Two, and contributed to the soundtrack of Federico Fellini's Fellini Satyricon.
He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in music composition in 1971.
İlhan Mimaroğlu died of pneumonia in 2012.
Discography
For acoustic instruments
Albums for solo piano produced by İlhan Mimaroğlu under the Finnadar label:- Meral Guneyman plays the piano music of Frank Bridge, Anton Webern and Abel Decaux “one of year’s five best” September Moon, a Nocturnal Seascape for orchestraAntistrophes for flute and pianoDeformations for clarinet and pianoIdols of Perversity for solo viola and string ensemble Monologlar for clarinet and viola Monologue I for unaccompanied clarinetMonologue II for unaccompanied violinMonologue III for unaccompanied English hornÜç parça Pieces Sentimentales for pianoAnı ve Günce Sonatı for pianoRosa for piano Valses ignobles et sentencieuses for piano Yaylı dördüllerYaylı çalgılar için gece ezgileriSessions for piano
- String Quartet No.4 "Like There's Tomorrow", with voice obbligato Three Pieces for Piano Prelude Waltz Boogie