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Gamal Abdel-Rahim (Arabic: Gaml Abd er-

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Raheem),(b. Cairo, 1924; d. Knigstein, Germany, November 23,

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1988) was an Egyptian classical music composer, educator, and

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pianist. His best-known work is the symphony Osiris.

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Gamal Abdel-Rahim

Abdel-Rahim was born in Cairo to a musical father, and began

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playing the piano at an early age. His early musical studies were supported by the Music Society of

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the Faculty of Arts of Cairo University (then called Fuad I University), graduating with a degree in

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history. In 1950 he began university studies in musicology at the Musikhochschule of Heidelberg in

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West Germany, deciding on a career as a composer. From 1952 to 1957 he studied composition

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with Harald Genzmer (a pupil of Paul Hindemith) at the Hochschule fr Musik Freiburg.
In 1959, Abdel-Rahim was appointed to teach theory and harmony at the newly opened Cairo
Conservatory of Music. He was later appointed head of the composition department there (the first

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of its kind in the Arab world), which he founded in 1971. Abdel-Rahim was quite influential among

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Egyptian composers of the next generation, as the majority of them studied with him during his time

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at the Cairo Conservatory.

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Abdel-Rahim's style fuses traditional Egyptian musical elements with contemporary European

ones, focusing on Egyptian materials in his later works more than in his earlier ones. He composed

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many works for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles, as well as songs and music for film,
theater, and ballet. He was awarded the State Prize for Composition, as well as the Order of Arts,
from the Egyptian government.
Abdel-Rahim was married to Samha El-Kholy (1925-2006), a noted Egyptian musicologist and
former president of the Academy of Arts in Cairo. Abdel-Rahim died in Frankfurt, Germany.
His notable students include Ahmed El-Saedi, Rageh Daoud, Mona Ghoneim, Khaled Shokry,
Sherif Mohie El Din, Nader Abbasy, Ali Osman, and Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah.

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List of Egyptian composers

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El-Kholy, Samha, and John Robison (1993). Festschrift for Gamal Abdel-Rahim. Occasional
Paper Series (Fulbright Commission in Egypt), v. 2, no. 2. Cairo: The Binational Fulbright
Commission in Egypt. OCLC 31603044 .
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Gamal Abdel-Rahim official site

Gamal Abdel-Rahim biography

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Categories: 1924 births

Egyptian composers

1988 deaths

20th-century classical composers

Musicians from Cairo

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Egyptian pianists

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Egyptian classical pianists

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