As per our current Database, Halim El-Dabh has been died on Sep 2, 2017 (age 96).
When Halim El-Dabh die, Halim El-Dabh was 96 years old.
| Popular As | Halim El-Dabh |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Age | 96 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Pisces |
| Born | March 4, 1921 (El-Sakakini, Egypt) |
| Birthday | March 4 |
| Town/City | El-Sakakini, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egypt |
Halim El-Dabh’s zodiac sign is Pisces. According to astrologers, Pisces are very friendly, so they often find themselves in a company of very different people. Pisces are selfless, they are always willing to help others, without hoping to get anything back. Pisces is a Water sign and as such this zodiac sign is characterized by empathy and expressed emotional capacity.
Halim El-Dabh was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Egyptian-born American Composer, educator, ethnomusicologist, and musician whose career spanned over a half-century. He was a pioneer in electronic music and was credited with recording the first piece of electronic tape music in 1944.
He came to the United States in 1950 courtesy of a Fulbright Fellowship to study music at the University of New Mexico. His teachers were the famed John Donald Robb and Ernst Krenek.
He recorded his first electronic tape music for "The Expression of Zaar," an electroacoustic musique concrète piece. He developed the concept at the Colombia-Princeton Electronic Music Center during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He grew up with a large, wealthy Coptic family in Sakakini, Cairo, Egypt.
He was largely influenced by Austrian Composer Bela Bartok.
