1907-1997
He was born in Midiat (southeast of Turkey), and he moved to Adina in 1914, where he studied languages, then he moved to Damascus at the end of 1921, where he received his first lesson in music. In fact, the music of the Syriac Church was his source of inspiration. He worked as a violinist in a restaurant in Beirut in the late twenties. He wrote and composed his first mational song there. Hle lived in the period between 1931 and 1936 in Palestine, where he played with famous artists. In the period between 1937 and 1939, he lived in Qamishli, and then he moved to Aleppo in 1946, where he published his first music book in 1953 in Syriac, which was entitled “Min Mosiqana Alhaditha’ (From Our Modern Music. He founded a private music school in Qamishli in 1957, and after a year he was appointed a teacher of music at the Cultural Center in Qamishli. He also served President of the Cultural Center in Malikiya from 1958 to 1973 In Qamishli in 1974 he released a dise containing two songs whose tunes were composed by him. He immigrated to Stockholm Sweden in 1979 and remained there until his death. In Sweden in 1990 he published his book Almosiqa Alsuriya Abr Altarihk (The Syrian Music throughout History), which actually focuses on the Syriac music.
