Mohammad Hossein Arman

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Mohammad Hossein Arman ( Persian استاد محمد حسین آر مان, * between March 21, 1935 and March 20, 1936 according to the Iranian calendar based on the solar year in Kabul's old town "Shur Bazar", which is between Charabat and Hinduguzar ) is an Afghan singer and musician. He is co-founder of Ensemble Kaboul , which includes his daughter Mashal Arman, his son Khaled Arman and Ustad Mahwash , the first woman to bear the title Ustad .

biography

Mohammad Hossein Arman was interested in music from childhood, especially as he grew up in a musical family. His older brother, Mohammad Ebrahim Nasim, taught him the first instruments such as nai and harmonia . As early as 1951 he belonged to a group of young people who taught at Radio Kabul , now Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), from masters of the Kabul Charabat of the Patiala (city) - Gharana music school and from representatives of western-oriented polyphonic music has been. Members of this group were Ustad Fakir Nangyaly (trumpet), Ustad Salim Sarmast, a famous Afghan conductor of the 20th century.

Ustad Arman learned classical music in Kabul Kharabat with Ustad Ghulam Hossein , the father of Mohamed Hussein Sarahang . Faruch Afandi and Ustad Abdul Ghafur Breshna taught music with Western-tuned instruments on Kabul radio. His preference was the guitar, which he, apparently the first Afghan musician, played with several voices (melody and chords or fingerings).

Ustad Arman passed his matriculation examination at the commercial school in Kabul in the early 1950s and initially worked for the state-owned airline Ariana Afghan Airlines , a subsidiary of Pan American World Airways . After that he worked for Radio Kabul . In 1966 he received a scholarship to study music in Yugoslavia. There he studied classical guitar in particular. In the seventies he returned to Kabul. There he composed several songs. His songs are still broadcast today by various TV stations.

Between the 1970s and 1990s he worked a. a. with the Kabul Symphony, which was conducted by Prof. Salim Sarmast, and taught as a lecturer at the Conservatory in Kabul. Well-known musicians from the country were members of this symphony orchestra. During the civil war in the 1990s, he left Afghanistan and first emigrated to India. He then stayed in Germany before finally settling in Switzerland.

Ustad Arman traveled to Kabul in 2011 to find out about the state of music development in Afghanistan and, if necessary, to teach there. Ustad Arman would have B. in the Dr. Ahmad Sarmast (son of the only conductor in Afghanistan in the 20th century) founded and supported by London can teach music school in Kabul. This music school was also supported by the Federal Foreign Office. Apparently Ustad's son Salim Sarmast showed no interest in making use of his father's colleague's wealth of experience. The Afghan Ministry of Culture also gave him the cold shoulder. He returned from Kabul disappointed and reported in Europe about his travel experience and that he was not enthusiastic about the development of music.

His song "Eshq-e tu Mekashanad" is very famous and is used by various singers a. a. sung by Freshta Sama, Hangama's younger sister . Originally the song was only performed with the guitar.

Personal

Arman currently lives in Switzerland. His son, Khaled Arman, is currently the director of the Kabul ensemble.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/world/awards2003/profile_kaboul.shtml
  2. ↑ http://worldmusiccentral.org/artists/artist_page.php?id=1858
  3. ↑ http://www.erpmusic.com/p_Orient2009.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.figf.ch/de/archive/2004/armanhashemi.html

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personal data
SURNAME Arman, Mohammad Hossein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Afghan singer and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century