İlhan Baran explained
İlhan Baran (1934, Artvin – 27 November 2016) was a Turkish composer. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Baran studied double bass and was a composition student of Ahmed Adnan Saygun at Ankara State Conservatory, graduating in 1960. He continued his studies in France at École Normale de Musique de Paris with Henri Dutilleux and Maurice Ohana. After returning to Turkey, he taught composition at the Ankara State Conservatory from 1964 to 2000.[5]
Selected works
- Orchestra
- Töresel Çeşitlemeler (Modal Variations) (1980)
- Chamber music
- Bir Bölümlü Sonatina (Sonatina in One Movement) for violin (or viola, or cello) and piano (1965)
- Yaylı Çalgılar Dördülü (String Quartet)
- Demet (Miracles) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1966–1967)
- Dönüşümler (Transformations) for violin, cello and piano (1975)
- Uygulamalar (Applications), Volumes I & II for double bass and piano
- Dört Zeybek (4 Zeybek Dances) for double bass and piano
- Dört Parça (4 Pieces) for 2 flutes
- Keyboard
- Çocuk Parçaları (Children's Pieces) for piano or harpsichord (1984)
- Küçük Süit (Junior Suite) for piano
- Üç Soyut Dans (3 Abstract Dances) for piano
- Üç Bagatel (3 Bagatelles) for piano (1974)
- İki Sesli Sonatına (2 Audio Sonatinas) for piano
- Siyah Beyaz (Black and White) for piano
- Mavi Anadolu (Blue Anatolia) for piano (1999)
- Choral
- Eylül Sonu (End of September) for mixed chorus
- Ezgi Demeti for mixed chorus
- Şarkılar (Songs) for mixed chorus
Notes and References
- Nationality and nationalism - Page 111 Athena S. Leoussi, Steven Elliott Grosby - 2004 "... music, concrete music and electronic music such as Biilent Arel, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Ilhan Usmanbas and Ilhan Baran."
- Evin İlyasoğlu Çağdaş Türk bestecileri / 71 Turkish composers 1989/2007
- Turkish composers The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians - Volume 12 - Page 137 2001
- Ahmet Say The music makers in Turkey 1995 "İlhan BARAN (b. 1934) ... Many young generation composers today are among his pupils. ... The composer has employed the harmonization technique of Turkish music evolved by Kemal llerici "
- http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05102008-183522/unrestricted/BilgenogluEtreatise.pdf Bilgenoğlu, Evren (2008). A Guide for Undergraduate Level Students to Perform Music for Solo Viola, Viola and Piano, and Viola and Orchestra by Turkish Composers, Florida State University, pp. 45-46.
