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Khaled Al Kammar

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Khaled Al Kammar (born May 14, 1990) is an Egyptian composer noted for his scores for film and TV. He is considered one of the most prominent composers of his generation in Egypt, having won several local and international awards for his work on projects such as Qabeel, Sahib El Maqam, and Netflix’s first Egyptian production, the series Paranormal. Early life Khaled showed a significant interest in music from a young age, despite being raised in an academic family with no artistic background. He taught himself the basics of music and studied mechatronics engineering at the German University in Cairo to satisfy his family’s wishes. After graduating, he began his career in film scoring, working at Hany Adel’s studio from 2012 to 2015. During this period, he composed music for films like Assem and Décor, among others. He also gained experience by assisting leading Egyptian composers such as Hesham Nazih on The Originals and Layali Eugenie, as well as Khaled Hammad on Awalem Khafeya. Education In 2015, Khaled received a scholarship to pursue a Master’s degree in Composition for the Screen at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. He graduated with distinction in 2016, ranki

Khosrovidukht

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Khosrovidukht (, ; ) was an Armenian hymnographer and poet who lived during the early 8th century. After her slightly earlier contemporary Sahakdukht, she is the first known woman of Armenian literature and music, and among the earliest woman composers in the history of music. Daughter of the ruler of Goghtn, , her father was killed and she was imprisoned in a fortress of Ani-Kamakh (modern-day Kemah) for twenty years. Her brother was imprisoned and eventually killed; Khosrovidukht’s only surviving work, the (chant) "" (More astonishing to me) was dedicated to him. Its authenticity has occasionally been doubted, with some scholars attributing it to Sahakdukht. The work did not enter the general repertory of liturgy but was eventually approved by the Armenian Church for religious use. Life Extremely little is known about Khosrovidukht. Active in the 8th century, she is recorded as being a member of the royal family. Her father was , who ruled Goghtn, a province of Vaspurakan. Her given name is unknown; the ‘dukht’ of Khosrovidukht means ‘daughter of’. She is also known as Khosrovidukht Goghtnatsi (Khosrovidukht of Goghtn). Khosrovidukht’s father was killed in 706, when the local Mus

Khrennikov's Seven

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Khrennikov’s Seven () was a group of seven Russian Soviet composers denounced in 1979 at the Sixth Congress of the Composers’ Union by its leader Tikhon Khrennikov for the unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West. Khrennikov called their music “pointlessness … and noisy mud instead of real musical innovation”. The seven were listed in the following order: Elena Firsova, Dmitri Smirnov, Alexander Knaifel, Viktor Suslin, Vyacheslav Artyomov, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Edison Denisov. These composers subsequently suffered restrictions on the performance and publication of their music. The tone of the denunciation harkened back to the First Congress of 1948, at which Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khachaturian, Myaskovsky, Klebanov, and others were denounced. By 1991, four of the seven had left the Soviet Union (Knaifel, Denisov, and Artyomov remained); Denisov left the country in 1994 and died in Paris two years later. Quotations “In 1979, the Communist Party tried to bring these rebels a group of younger composers known as “unofficial” composers to heel. The egregious hack Tikhon Khrennikov, head of the Soviet Composers’ Union, attacked seven of them by name in