{"id":2823,"date":"2020-05-05T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2021-05-14T11:44:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T15:44:02","slug":"uqbal-mit-sanah-aziz-el-shawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/loebmusic\/2020\/05\/05\/uqbal-mit-sanah-aziz-el-shawan\/","title":{"rendered":"Uqb\u0101l m\u012bt Sanah, Aziz El-Shawan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aziz El-Shawan (1916-1993) was twentieth-century Egypt’s most prominent composer. His collection of manuscript scores, including finished works, sketches and miscellaneous other materials — is held here at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library, and we are excited to announce that the Aziz El-Shawan Collection of Manuscript Scores is now fully processed, with nearly all of its contents digitized and freely available online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Portrait of Aziz El-Shawan. From the private collection of Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco.<\/p><\/div>\n

After Egypt’s Soviet Cultural Center was founded in 1952, El-Shawan served as its director for fifteen years, which afforded him opportunities to travel to Moscow, where he befriended and eventually studied with renowned Soviet composer Aram Khachaturian<\/a>, whose influence on the development of El-Shawan’s composition style was profound.<\/p>\n

El-Shawan was a prolific composer of songs, symphonies, symphonic poems, ballets, choral works, cantatas, operas, concertos, suites, and chamber music. He considered Western tonal music to be an “international musical language” and created a new musical idiom in which he wrote for both Western and Egyptian instruments.<\/p>\n

His best-known work, An\u0101s El-Wug\u016bd<\/em>, was the first Egyptian opera with Arabic language and content to reach the stage. It was first performed in Cairo in 1996.<\/p>\n

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A scene from the 1996 premiere of An\u0101s El-Wug\u016bd at the Cairo Opera House. From the private collection of Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco.<\/p><\/div>\n

From our collection, here are select pages of his manuscripts of the opera’s full score and vocal score.<\/p>\n

\"Pages<\/a>

An\u0101s El-Wug\u016bd (full score). Aziz El-Shawan Collection of Manuscript Scores. Ms. Coll. 155, Box 5.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Pages<\/a>

An\u0101s El-Wug\u016bd (vocal score). Aziz El-Shawan Collection of Manuscript Scores. Ms. Coll. 155, Box 7.<\/p><\/div>\n

Our finding aid for the Aziz El-Shawan Collection of Manuscript Scores<\/a> contains information about each piece, along with links to electronic copies of all the pieces we have digitized.<\/p>\n

And in honor of May 6th being the 104th anniversary of El-Shawan’s birth date, here from our collection is a birthday song that he composed (with lyrics by Nabilah Qandil), titled Uqb\u0101l m\u012bt Sanah<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Uqb\u0101l m\u012bt Sanah (Happy Birthday to You). Aziz El-Shawan Collection of Manuscript Scores. Ms. Coll. 155, Box 6.<\/p><\/div>\n

This post was written by Josh Kantor, Assistant Keeper of the Isham Memorial Library<\/a>. The Aziz El-Shawan Collection is available to view online. Interested researchers may view the rest of the collection by appointment. When the Harvard library buildings re-open, click View in Library in the HOLLIS record\u00a0for the Aziz El-Shawan Collection of Manuscript Scores<\/a> and tell us when you would like to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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