Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-American composer and educator (died 2017)

Halim El-Dabh

Egyptian-American classical composer (1921–2017)

Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music. In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music,…