Abu Bakr Khairat

Composer

1910 – 1963

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Who was Abu Bakr Khairat?

Abu Bakr Khairat; name also spelled Abu Bakr Khayrat was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers.

An architect by profession, Khairat studied music since childhood, and studied harmony and composition in Paris privately. He had a successful career in architecture, designing the Academy of Arts complex and the Sayed Darwish Concert Hall.

His compositions are written in a romantic idiom, combining Egyptian traditional elements with Western music. He sometimes drew on melodies by the early 20th-century Egyptian composer Sayed Darwish.

He served as the first dean of the Cairo Conservatoire, from 1959 to 1963.

Khairat's father was Mahmud Khayrat. His nephew is the composer Omar Khairat.

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Born
Apr 10, 1910
Cairo
Died
Oct 25, 1963
Cairo

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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