Mahmoud El Hefny

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Mahmoud Ahmad El Hefny , also Mahmūd Ahmad al-Hifnī ( Arabic محمود أحمد الحفني, DMG Maḥmūd Aḥmad al-Ḥifnī ; April 14, 1896 in Dundīt, Egypt - March 29, 1973 in Cairo ) was an Egyptian musicologist and ministerial official .

Life

Mahmoud El Hefny was the son of a landowner and, at the request of his father, studied medicine in Germany at the University of Berlin from 1920 after visiting the University of Cairo and from 1922 at the University of Rostock . As early as 1921, while studying, he was active as secretary of the Wafdist Egyptian Federation , the former Egyptian Association in Berlin. In 1924/1925 he switched to music and studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin with Curt Sachs and then in 1928 switched to the University of Berlin. In 1931, he was here with his dissertation on the music teaching of Avicenna to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1932 he was already preparing and following up the music conference in Cairo. Mahmoud El Hefny worked from 1931 to 1952 as a ministerial official and inspector of music in the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and is the father of the return to the music of the pharaohs . He shaped music education in the country significantly until the change in power through the military coup in Egypt in 1952 under Gamal Abdel Nasser . Even afterwards, as a musicologist, he retained a certain, albeit reduced, influence on the cultural music scene and dealt with Arabic music, folk and the teaching of Western classical music in Arabic . He continued to take part in numerous music conferences. In addition to his numerous writings, he founded the journal al-Mūsīqā (later al-Majalla al-Mūsīqiyya ) in 1935 and the journal al-Mūsīqā wa-al-Masraḥ in 1949 . In both he published numerous articles that do not always reveal him as an author. From 1963 to 1973 Mahmoud El Hefny was chairman of the Egyptians' Club in Cairo.

Fonts

  • Ibn Sina's music theory mainly explained in his "Naǧāt": In addition to translation and editing of the musical section of the "Naǧāt". Hellwig, Diss. Berlin 1931

literature

  • Gerhard Höpp : Texts from abroad. Arab Political Journalism in Germany, 1896-1945. A bibliography. 2000, p. 51/52 pdf of the DNB
  • Christian Poché: El Hefny, Mahmoud Ahmad in: Grove Music Online . Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (accessed on August 31, 2015)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in 1922 in the Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ a b Gerhard Höpp: Texts from Foreign Countries, p. 51
  3. ^ A b Christian Poché: El Hefny, Mahmoud Ahmad
personal data
SURNAME Hefny, Mahmoud El
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hefny, Mahmoud Ahmad El (full name); Mahmūd Ahmad al-Hifnī
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian musicologist and ministerial official
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Dundīt, Egypt
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1973
Place of death Cairo