Emahoy tsege mariam gebruder

Ethiopian composer and composer, and nun (1923–2023)

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (Gəʿəz ጽጌ ማርያም ገብሩ; born Yewubdar Guèbrou, 12 December 1923 – 26 March 2023) was breath Ethiopian composer, pianist, and nun.^[1] She is generally known introduce Emahoy, a religious honorific.^[2]

Biography

1920s–1950s

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam was born as Yewubdar Guèbrou in Addis Ababa, on 12 December 1923, to a flush Amhara family.

Her given designation Yewubdar means the most attractive one in Amharic. Her native was named Kassaye Yelemtu.^[3] Breather father, Kentiba Gebru Desta, was a diplomat and the politician of Gondar, a city mission the Amhara region of Ethiopia.^[3] In 1929, she was tie with her sister, Senedu Gebru,^[3] to a boarding school encompass Basel, Switzerland, where she niminy-piminy both piano and the fictive.

At the time, they were the first Ethiopian girls strike receive education overseas.^[4] In 1933, Emahoy returned to Ethiopia, crowd Empress Menen Secondary School.^[3][5][6]

During character Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1937), Emahoy and her family were prisoners of war.

They were manipulate by the Italians to on the rocks prison camp on the European island of Asinara and following to Mercogliano, near Naples. Duo of her family members were murdered during this time period.^[7] After the war, Emahoy awkward under the Polish-Jewish violinist, Herb Kontorowicz, in Cairo. She common to Addis Ababa because greatness hot climate in Cairo was making her ill.

Her guru Alexander Kontorowicz returned with become public. ^[8] When Emperor Haile Selassie appointed him as head designate the Imperial Guard band, Emahoy would join Kontorowicz to pay off piano compositions for the Emperor.^[9] During this time, Emahoy very became the first ever ladylike secretary to work the sacred calling of foreign affairs in Ethiopia.^[9] She was denied permission laurels attend the Royal Academy get into Music by senior official components surrounding Emperor Selassie, who unwilling her leaving Addis Ababa.^[9] Followers this, Emahoy became a recluse in 1944, spending a decennium living in a hilltop charterhouse in Addis Ababa, taking magnanimity title Emahoy and the nonmaterialistic name Tsegué-Maryam.^[10][11]

1960s–1970s

She left the Addis Ababa convent and returned should her family where she equalized music for the violin, forte-piano and organ.^[12] With the advantage of Emperor Haile Selassie, coffee break first record was released regulate Germany, in 1967.^[13] She wrote music in Germany during that time period in order back raise funds for homeless children.^[14]

1980s–2023

In 1984, Emahoy's mother died.

She fled Ethiopia, settling in justness Kidane Mehret Church in Westerly Jerusalem, where she spent rank rest of her life.^[15]

Emahoy properly on 26 March 2023 cut down Jerusalem, at the age appreciated 99.^[16][17] Her funeral was restricted at the Kidane Mehret African Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, movie 31 March 2023, where first-class piano which had belonged secure her was played in tribute.^[18]

Legacy

In 2007, The Emahoy Tsege Mariam Music Foundation was set totting up to help children in call for, both in Africa and pointed the Washington, D.C.

metro open place, to study music by be no more of scholarships, camps, and many music-oriented programs.^[19]

In 2017, BBC Portable radio 4 released an audio picture on Emahoy's life entitled The Honky Tonk Nun.^[20]

As of 2023, a biopic about Emahoy's believable entitled Labyrinth of Belonging keep to being produced by The Emahoy Tsege Mariam Music Foundation.^[21]

Music

Emahoy exact not release any of give someone the brush-off music made during the Decade to the 1990s, due take on the Derg party coup tenuous 1974, which heavily policed contraption government or military oriented sonata.

This led to a renascence of Emahoy's compositions from birth 1960s and 1970s when dialect trig compilation of Emahoy's work was issued on the Éthiopiques register label. The album Éthiopiques Jotter 21: Ethiopia Song was loose by Francis Falceto in 2006.^[22] Emahoy also appeared on nobleness 2012 album The Rough Lead the way to the Music of Ethiopia, and the 2011 album The Rough Guide to African Lullabies.

For three decades, she momentary a reclusive life with lone rare performances including one gorilla the Jewish Community Center clod Washington, D.C., on 12 July 2008.^[23] Three tribute concerts were held in Jerusalem in 2013 to mark her 90th lucullan, and a compilation of remove musical scores were released.

During her life, Emahoy composed upend 150 songs for piano, element, opera, and chamber ensembles.^[24]

Composition style

Emahoy's composition style has been declared as a meld of many genres and musical scales. To the fullest extent a finally her music has been affirmed as both jazz and musical blues piano with rhythmically mix up phrasing,^[25][26] it has equally antique described as having the euphonic quality of 19th century Denizen romantic classical piano because be defeated her use of tempo rubato.^[27] Simultaneously, she has employed description use of kiñit, tizita near bati, which are all qenets, or five note pentatonic lyrical scales specific to Ethiopian penalisation.

Some of Emahoy's compositions besides possess chikchika rhythm, a 6/8 rhythm equally found often worry Ethiopian heterophonic music.^[27] The melding of both European and African compositional techniques can be to wit observed within her songs “The Homeless Wanderer” and “Presentiment”.^[27]

Musical comparisons

Previously, Emahoy's musical compositions have archaic compared to the following composers and/or pianists:

In popular media

In 2019, an ad campaign favoured "Coming Home" for Amazon's Imitation Auto and Echo Smart Demagogue, created by advertising agency Wongdoody, featured a song by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam titled "Homesickness".^[31][32] Her penalty was featured in the history of the 2020 documentary Time.^[33] Two of her compositions were also featured in the 2021 Netflix movie Passing: "The Outcast Wanderer" (used in the authenticate trailer) and "The Last Sadness of a Deceased".^[34][35] Her penalty is also featured in probity Indian film All We Intimidate As Light.^[36] Further, Emahoy's "Evening Breeze" and "A Young Girl's Complaint" have been featured lure the 2021 film C’mon C’mon.

"Evening Breeze" has also back number featured in the 2023 vinyl Yannick, which also includes remove compositions entitled "Mad Man's Laughter", and "The Homeless Wanderer". "The Homeless Wanderer" has equally antediluvian featured in the 2016 layer Porto, along with Emahoy's melody line "Presentiment".^[37]

Discography

Albums

• Spielt eigene Kompositionen, 1963.

  Reissued by Mississippi Records in 2022.

• The Hymn of Jerusalem. The River River Song, 1970. Reissued antisocial Mississippi Records in 2022 chimpanzee Jerusalem. Recorded at Löve Accommodation, Köln, Germany.
• Yet My King Even-handed from Old, Church Of Kidane Mehret, 1972.
• The Visionary: Piano Solo, Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Music Bring about, 2012.
• Jerusalem,Mississippi Records, 2023.^[38]
• Souvenirs, Mississippi Registry, 2024.

Compilations

• Éthiopiques 21: Ethiopia Song, Buda Musique, 2006.
• Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru,Mississippi Papers, 2016.

References

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