Habib Hassan Touma | |
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حبيب حسن توما | |
Born | |
Died | August 10, 1998 | (aged 63)
Nationality | Palestinian |
Occupation(s) | Composer, ethnomusicologist |
Habib Hassan Touma ( Arabic: حبيب حسن توما) (12 December 1934 – 10 August 1998) [1] was a Palestinian composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Nazareth, who lived and worked for many years in Berlin, Germany. [2] Touma authored a number of books, essays and musicological studies on Arabic; Turkish or Iranian music, among them The Music of the Arabs, first published in 1975 in German and translated into several languages. [3]
He was also a book review editor for the ethnomusicological journal The World of Music, published by the International Institute for Traditional Music in Berlin. [4] Among other studies based on his field work in Arabic countries, he published a description and photographs of the Work Songs of the Gulf Pearl Divers of Bahrain. [5] Another of his studies treated the Arabic musical influence on the Iberian Peninsula during the period of Al-Andalus. [6]