Farid Allawerdi
Farid Allawerdi 1923 - 2007 Farid Allawerdi (Arabic: فريد الله ويردي) also transliterated as Farid Allahwerdi or Farid Allah Werdi (Russian: Фарид Алахверди), (1923-2007) Iraqi Composer,[1] violist, musicologist, and teacher is considered one of Iraq’s most innovative[2] and influential[3] composers. As a composer, he was the first and only one to be internationally recognized[4][5] and as a member of the International Society for Contemporary Music he appeared on their International Rostrum of Composers. His compositions have been performed in concerts and on radio and television, in the United States, France, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, Syria, Egypt and many far-Eastern countries. He won many awards and honours, including Prix D’Honneur de 'L'Ecole Nationale de Musique de Saint-Brieuc, Paris, and a Diploma of Appreciation for his leading role in furthering Arab Music 1970-1995 by the Arab League, Arab Academy of Music. He explored contemporary musical idioms to find his own unique language where two completely different musical traditions – that of the Middle East and of the contemporary classical – could merge seamlessly. In his Quartet No.1, the richness of the scale and rhythms used in Iraqi Maqam (Saba) are deeply rooted in the soil of his nation’s folk tradition and form a synthesis with his classical training.[6][7][8]
The nineteen forties and fifties saw an artistic renaissance. He was actively involved in bridging the gap between modernity and heritage. He used the twelve-tone combined with the quarter-tone (an ancient Arabic mode), together with silences that have structural function, and “knocking the wood” for two different percussive sounds in evocation of traditional Iraqi dance drums.
As an accomplished instrumentalist, having studied the Violin and Viola, and as a member of several string quartets, Farid Allawerdi had a natural affinity for composing for strings. His Fantasia for the Violin Alone is considered one of the most challenging compositions for the instrument.[9] It was notably performed by Vartan Manoogian, Boris Klepov and Kumiko Ito.
Early life and family
[edit]Farid Allawerdi was born in Basra, Iraq in 1923. His father, Issa Nouri Allawerdi was a physician from Kirkuk, and his mother, Victoria Oskanian, an Armenian from a prominent family in Istanbul.[10] His early childhood in Basra was enriched by a mosaic of ethnic and religious cultures, both local and foreign. From an early age, Farid was exposed to a wide range of soundscapes; his Mother’s songs in Arabic, Armenian, Turkish and French; the sonorous cries of street vendors; Bedouin beggars chanting to the accompaniment of a Rababah (an Iraqi Bedouin single stringed fiddle); wedding processions with Drum and Zurnah (a double reed wood wind instrument ); children beating rhythmic patterns on the Tablah (large, two-sided drum); a blind Sheik in the Bazaar reciting verses from the Koran; the incomprehensible invocations of an Indian Fakir; a Muezzin’s call to prayer; a Chaldean Priest chanting litanies from the Bible; all these and more fostered a strong impetus to transgress his own ethnic, religious and national boundaries.[11]
Education and career
[edit]His mother, a talented artist, encouraged his artistic development. By the age of five, he was singing, improvising on the mandolin and painting under her guidance and encouragement. This early musical education at home later developed through chanting at Chaldean church services and as a leading member of various school choirs.[12]
It was only in 1944, and after years of residence in different parts of the country, that the family finally settled in Baghdad where Farid Allawerdi had the opportunity to study music academically with European teachers at the then newly established Fine Arts Institute. He studied Violin with Sandu Albu (a former student of Zoltán Kodály) while at the same time studying Law at the Law College in Baghdad. As a music student he was recognized as very gifted. Professor Sandu Albu considered him “ ... the only talent for composition in Iraq.” Prof. Sandu Albu’s letter of 31 August 1955).[13][14]
After graduating from Law College in 1948 he devoted himself completely to music and its development in Iraq.[15][16]
From 1950-1952 Farid Allawerdi was a scholarship student in Paris for his higher theoretical studies under professors Henry Challen and Francis-Paul Demillac (Enyss Djemil) where he absorbed and used creatively the achievements of the new stylistic trends. He was quickly identified with all that was progressive in the musical world of his time.[17]
In 1951 he composed his first piece, Rondo for Guitar and Clarinet which was performed the same year in Baghdad.[18]
In 1952 he returned to Baghdad, where he taught theory of music and harmony at the Fine Art Institute.[19] Together with his colleagues he established the Baghdad Philharmonic Society and was a member of a Chamber group composed of Professor Julian Hertz, Piano; Professor Sandu Albu, 1st violin; Vartan Manoogian 2nd violin; Farid Allawerdi, Viola; Professor Andre Theurer, Cello. He continues to perform with the Chamber Group until 1959.[20][21]
Upon the popular Iraqi uprising and subsequent revolution in 1958, he composed a Hymn Al-Mansouriya, which he dedicated to the Iraqi people. It was performed in June 1959 by the Moscow Radio Symphony OrchestraTchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra under Conductor Alexei Kovalev (Алексей Ковалёв). The recording was used extensively by Baghdad Radio and Television after speeches of the leader Abd al-Karim Qasim Abd al-Karim Qasim. The popularity of the Al Mansouriya subsequently led to Farid being condemned to death in absentia and the hymn banned after the 1963 Ba'ath Party coup d'état Ramadan Revolution.[22][23]
In December 1959 he went to Moscow to continue his education at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory Moscow Conservatory where he studied composition under professor Evgeny Golubev.
He also studied instrumentation with Professor Nikolai Petrovich Rakov Nikolai Rakov#:, Analysis of musical works with Professor Bobrovsky V.V., Universal piano with Smoliakov B.G., Teaching methods with Fedorov T.N., and Harmony and Polyphony with Alfred Schnittke.[24]
In 1964 he presented his thesis on the Theory of Music for publication at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Discussing his book, the Dean of the Department of Music, Professor Sergei Screbov (Скребков, Сергей Сергеевич) noted that: “For the first time, in Allawerdi’s book, the characteristics of Arabic music, particularly its Rhythmical scale, quarter tone intonations, etc. are given a scientific basis ... therefore we would like to have a full translation of the book in Russian to enable us to use it in our work at the Moscow Conservatory” (D E C I S I O N: Department of Theory of Music at Moscow, Tchaikovsky Conservatory, 29 May 1964).[25]
At the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Farid Allawerdi took an active part in musical circles with his fellow student composers such as Iosif Andriasov, Dzhivani Mikhailov, Boris Tobis (Тобис, Борис Ильич) and others.[26]
In 1963, after a bloody coup, the Ba’ath Party came to power in Iraq. Farid Allawerdi was condemned to death in absentia due to the popularity of his hymn, Al-Mansouriya, with the previous government. The authorities labelled him a communist for his independent character and radical thoughts. His passport was confiscated and his scholarship was cancelled. As a result, he was forced to join his family in the USA where he continued his studies on his own account under Professor Donald Lybbert of the City University of New York where he graduated with an MA degree in composition. Commenting on his graduation work, Professor Donald Lybbert said: “... in the judgement of the graduate committee of the department, is one of the finest ever to be presented to this committee.” (Letter by Prof Donald Lybbert of September 20, 1968).[27]
While in the USA, he was commissioned (1965-1968) to compose for the Annual Festival of American Music in New York. In 1965, he composed the Invention in Triple Counterpoint Pianoforte, in 1966, Sonata for Violin and Piano, in 1967, Fantasy for Violin Alone, and in 1968, Petite Suite for Piano. Upon graduation he found work at the Glassboro State College, now Rowan College of New Jersey.[28]
When in 1968, the new Iraqi government published a General Amnesty for political exiles, Farid returned to Baghdad in October of that year. There he found a very depressing musical scene. The Symphony Orchestra had been disbanded, and many promising musicians were still in exile abroad. The only opportunity for musicians was teaching at the Fine Arts Institute.[29]
The coalition government of Democrats, Nationalists, Communists and other parties with the leading Ba’ath Party permitted him to return to his former position as a music teacher at the Fine Arts Institute Baghdad College of Fine Arts, but with the same salary of 1959 without any legal entitlements to compensation for his successful studies. He tried to revive the chamber music orchestra but discovered that musicians were dispirited due to years of oppression, and most were out of practice due to their second jobs that had nothing to do with music.[30]
He also learned that his Hymn Al-Mansouriyah was still blacklisted despite the General Amnesty, and that the Ba’ath party had made a political issue of his musical compositions. A well known Ba’ath party ideologist approached him with the proposition to write a new National Anthem in exchange for a position as head of a new music department. He declined, saying that as long as Al-Mansouriyah remained blacklisted, he would not write a National Anthem.[31][32]
Farid Allawerdi had this to say: “I returned to Baghdad with a decision not to write, principally, any music that politics could allude to. They kept asking directly and indirectly, and I kept avoiding them by saying that I am not composing anymore. I was sick of their constant pressure and they were fed up with me too.”[33][34]
He was to remain a target for persecution by the regime until his departure from the country in 1991.[35][36]
Farid Allawerdi remained active in spite of this political pressure. With his background in Law, he was instrumental in establishing an Artist Union in Iraq. His special concern had been the rights of artists, especially folk singers and musicians, who lacked permanent employment and had no security when they lost their ability to perform. He secured their rights to a pension and raised their professional status in Iraqi society for the sheer gratitude of musicians to the powerful men who employ them, had, more than anything else, displayed the marginalized position of Iraqi musicians.[37][38]
In 1969 Farid Allawerdi was invited to deliver a speech, Towards International Arab Music, at the Second International Cairo Congress of Arab Music. He proposed to establish a Traditional Music Centres to record and archive folk and traditional music.[39] He expressed the necessity of not only preserving this heritage but also the importance of developing a Modern Arabic Music with the particular identity of each country. He believed that three interrelated factors were crucial for this development: the composer-theoretic; the musicologist-theoretic who analysis Arab music on a scientific basis; and the musician-performer with theoretical knowledge. Thus, concentration on any of them while the other two are neglected would cause imbalance and consequently paralyse the musical art movement as a whole.[40][41]
He stressed the importance of the official sponsorship of graduates of musical institutions who should be assigned proper fields of application. Noteworthy in this respect is the establishment of national symphony orchestras.[42]
From 1970 till 1975 Farid Allawerdi was Head of the Traditional Music Centre at the Radio and Television Broadcasting Establishment in Baghdad and for two years (1972-1974) carried out an extensive field survey and recording of Iraqi Traditional and Folk music all over Iraq[43] (Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian, Turkmen, and others) safeguarding this heritage prior to the war against the Kurdish people, the Iran-Iraq war, and the subsequent Gulf wars, which annihilated and uprooted the populations of the rural areas where this ancient heritage had flourished for millennium. The collected material was classified and catalogued for academic and public use. He used these recordings in his public and academic lectures abroad to encourage the process of mutual understanding between people with different cultural backgrounds.[44]
In 1971 Farid Allawerdi’s Quartet No.1 was first performed in Paris by Quatuor Margand (The Margand String Quartet), who added this Quartet to their repertoire of contemporary composers and performed it on their World Tour.[45]
In 1972 Farid Allawerdi was a member of the founding committee that established the School of Music and Ballet in Baghdad. He was of the opinion that the school should be the foundation of musical education in Iraq. He proposed to select talented children from all around the country and provide them with tutors, lodgings and stipends to ensure their future by providing them with scholarships to continue their musical education abroad so that Iraq could ensure professionals able to contribute to the musical development in the country and raise the status of musicians in the community. He was unfortunately outvoted. The school enrolled mostly children of the middle classes in Baghdad, who could afford private teachers but who would never allow their children to become professional musicians.[46]
From 1976 till 1981 he was teaching music appreciation for Drama students at the Academy of Fine Arts,[47] University of Baghdad, and laying the foundation for establishing a music department at university level.[48]
In 1993 and 1997 Farid Allawerdi’s Quartet No. 1 and Fantasy for Violin Alone were performed in Tokyo, Japan by the Yesuda Quartet.[49]
In 2002, Farid Allawerdi settled in Ireland. He was a member of the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland (CMC) and participated in its activities. He continued to work on his compositions and carry out research on Music Development in Iraq until his death in 2007.[50][51][52][53]
Memberships
[edit]Iraqi Artists Union (founding member)
Union of Iraqi Lawyers
SACEM, Societe Des Auteurs Compositeurs et Editeurs De Musique, France
SNAC, Syndicat National Des Autuers et Des Compositeurs De Musique, France
CMC, Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland[54]
For a detailed list of the above, refer to:[55]
Compositions
[edit]1. Romance for Soprano/Tenor (Poetry by Wahab Al-Bayati/Selwa Shamelian), 1973
2. Song for Soprano, (Poetry by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati) 1973
3. Song (Poetry by Abdul Wahab Al-Bayati), 1973
4. String Quartet No. 1, 1968
5. Petite Suite, Piano, 1966
6. Fantasy for Violin alone, 1965
7. Choral prelude, 1965
8. Sonata for Violin, 1965
9. Sonata for Violin and Piano, 1963
10. Piece for String Quartet/Allegro non Tropo, 1962
11. Piece for Quartet/Allegro Malto , 1962
12. In Memory of Jawad Selim/6th January 1961,1961
13. Hymn Symphonique, 1959
14. Al-Mansouriyah, 1959
15. Marsh, 1957
16. Andante con Eleganza for piano, 1954
17. Siciliano for String Orchestra,1953
18. Rondo for Clarinet and Guitar, 1951
19. Alterne/Instrumental Piece, 1953
20. Allegretto, Violin, 1953
For a detailed list of the above, refer to:[56]
Bibliography
[edit]1. Folk Vocal Traditional Music of Iraq
2. Trends in the Secular Music Culture of Iraq today: A preliminary survey
3. La melodie l’accent (in French)
4. Towards International Arabic Music/IMC Conference on Arabic Music, Cairo, 1969 - in Arabic and English
5. Development of Arabic music, 1962 - in Russian
6. Eclectism in the Symphony No 2 for String Orchestra and Trumpet (ad libitum) of A. Honegger with brief formal analysis of the Symphony
7. The Dramatism and Stylistic Features of the Liturgical Sequence
8. The Stylistic difference between G. Machaut’s Ballade: Je puis trop bien and G. Binchol’s Chanson: De plus en plus
9. The Stylistic features of the Free Counterpoint of the late Baroque Polyphonic Themes
10. The Stylistic features of the Songs of Hugo Wolf
11. The treatment of the Chorale melody in the Buxtehude’s and Bach’s organ Work
12. Critical Analysis of “At du Old Trysting-Place” by Edward MacDavell, op 51
For a detailed list of the above, refer to:[57]
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- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:ظهرت موهبته الفنية في سن مبكرة حين كان في الخامسة من العمر
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- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph: ووجد فريد عندئذ الفرصة لدراسة الموسيقى على أساس اكاديمي تحت اشراف اساتذة اوروبيين في معهد الفنون الجميلة الذي أفتتح لتوه
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph: التخرج من كلية الحقوق في عام 1948 كرس فريد نفسه كليا الى الموسيقى وتطويرها في العراق.
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- ^ https://altaakhi.net/2024/01/70856/ Struggle, Genius, And Pioneer In World of Music 2024 January 7th, Paragraph:في فترة 1950-1952 حاز فريد الله ويردي على زمالة للدراسة في باريس في قسم الدراسات النظرية العليا تحت اشراف البروفيسور هنري شالان والبروفيسور فرانسيس- بول ديميلاك.
- ^ https://altaakhi.net/2024/01/70856/ Struggle, Genius, And Pioneer In World of Music 2024 January 7th, Paragraph:وفي عام 1951 ألف أول مقطوعة له هي روندو للجيتار والكلارنيت التي عزفت في العام نفسه في بغداد
- ^ https://iraqiwomensleague.com/news_view_18072.html استذكار صاحب أول نشيد وطني..فريد الله ويردي رائد الموسيقى الكلاسيكية فـي العراق
- ^ https://altaakhi.net/2024/01/70856/ Struggle, Genius, And Pioneer In World of Music 2024 January 7th
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- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:في عام 1964 قدم موضوعة كتابه " نظرية الموسيقى"
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:شارك فريد الله ويردي في كونسرفتوار موسكو بنشاط في الحلقة الموسيقية التي شكلها عدد من الملحنين الطلاب (يوسف اندرياسوف و جيفاني ميخايلوف وبوريس توبيس وغيرهم) بالقيام بتسجيل وجمع النماذج من اجل دراسة وتحليل اعمال الملحنين المعاصرين.
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:في عام 1963 وقع الانقلاب العسكري الدموي في العراق وحكم على فريد الله ويردي غيابيا بالاعدام بسبب تأليفه " المنصورية"، التي حظيت بالشعبية في ايام الحكومة السابقة
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:وأبان وجود فريد الله ويردي في الولايات المتحدة انتدب (في 1965- 1968) لتأليف المقطوعات من أجل المهرجان السنوي للموسيقى الامريكية في نيويورك. 1965 ابتكار في نغم ثلاثي للبيانو 1966 سوناتا الكمان والبيانو 1967 فانتازيا للكمان 1968 سويتا بيتيت للكمان
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph: وبعد التخرج عمل مدرساً في كلية ستيت جلاسبورو في نيوجيرسي. وفي عام 1968 صدر في العراق عفو عام عن المنفيين السياسيين وتملكت فيردي الله ويردي البهجة والحماس للعودة الى بغداد
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:ووجد لدى عودته الى بغداد في اكتوبر (تشرين الاول) عام 1968 مشهدا محزنا في مجال الموسيقى. فقد حلت الاوركسترا السيمفونية وغادر الكثير من الموسيقيين الواعدين البلاد الى الخارج
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- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:كما علم ان انشودة " المنصورية " ما زالت ممنوعة بالرغم من صدور العفو العام، وأضفى حزب البعثة صبغة سياسية على التأليف الموسيقي.
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- ^ Altaakhi https://altaakhi.net/2024/01/70856/ by Rawaa Kamal, “Struggle, genius, and pioneer in world music
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia. 05.15.2013 Paragraph:وفي عام 1969 قدم فريد الله ويردي تقريرا في المؤتمر الدولي الثاني للموسيقى العربية المنعقد في القاهرة بعنوان " نحو موسيقى عربية عالمية"
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:ركز فريد الله ويردي الاهتمام على أهمية توفر الدعم الحكومي الرسمي لخريجي المعاهد الموسيقية
- ^ Adil al Hashimi,فريد الله ويردي :المقام محورا في ندوه الصيغ الموسيقيه في طشقند, al-Jumhūrīyah (الجمهورية) Saturday, 2 June 1990, issue no. 7561
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph: في عام 1970 أسس فريد الله ويردي المركز الموسيقي التقليدي العراقي في مؤسسة الاذاعة والتلفزيون
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- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:في عام 1972 تأسست مدرسة الموسيقى والباليه في بغداد. وكان فريد الله ويردي عضوا في اللجنة التي ناقشت مستقبل المدرسة وتلامذتها
- ^ درس بساعتين..هل يكفي! جعفر السعدي Tariq Al Shaab newspaper, Interview with Farid Allawerdi, Wednesday 11.01.1978, issue no. 1298, page 7
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- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:كان فريد الله ويردي يتمتع بعضوية:
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:الملحق 2- عزفت أعمال فريد الله ويردي (طبقا للبرامج المتوفرة)
- ^ https://almadasupplements.com/view.php?cat=7532 Farid Allawerdi...the pioneer of classical music in Mesopotamia 05.15.2013 paragraph:الملحق رقم 3 – المقالات والمخطوطات
External links
[edit]- Enyss Djemil (Francis-Paul Demillac)
- Алексей Ковалёв, Soviet conductor 1950-60s. Can be spelled Alexei Kovalyov or Aleksei Kovalyoff
Sergei Sergeevich Skrebkov (Скребков, Сергей Сергеевич)
Donald Lybbert (1923-1981) was an American composer and music Educator.
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