Edmond Yafil | |
Birth Name: | Edmond Nathan Yafil |
Birth Date: | 1874 |
Birth Place: | Algiers, Algeria |
Death Date: | October 1928 |
Death Place: | Algiers, Algeria |
Occupations: | Singer, musician (Arabic, French) |
Genre: | Andalusian classical music (sanaa) |
Edmond Nathan Yafil (1874 - October 1928) was an Algerian composer.
Native Jew born in Algiers in 1874, Yafil began, as all the musicians of his time, by attending the Moorish cafés of the old Casbah Algiers places where perpetuated the tradition of sanaa music, also referred to as Andalusian classical music.
He will collaborate with Jules Rouanet on the cataloging of sanaa music and in theater with Mahieddine Bachtarzi and Ali Sellali.He is buried at the St. Eugene Cemetery.