EL-DABH, HALIM

EL-DABH, HALIM. Composer/University professor (4 March 1921 in Cairo, Egypt). He obtained his basic musical training at Sulcz Conservatory in Cairo (diploma, 1944) and began composing at an early age, but earned his degree at Cairo University in agricultural engineering (1945). The critical acceptance of a performance of his piano piece, It is dark and damp on the front, on a concert at All Saints Cathedral in 1949 changed his entire life(quoted from Questionnaire), and thereafter he moved entirely...