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Henry George Farmer

هنري جورج فارمر

Notable figure 1882–1965 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 539; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 764 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Farmer, Henry George (1882-1965)

Field: Music and its texts

Affiliation

Historian of Arabic music; editor of its Arabic texts

Biography

A professional musician, he learned Arabic and Persian in order to study the history of music, and devoted himself to Arabic music, editing and translating its texts and describing its instruments. He wrote on al-Khalil's Kitab al-iqaʿ and Kitab al-nagham (1925), listed the Arabic musical manuscripts of the Bodleian Library (1926), wrote A History of Arabian Music (London, 1929), and chaired the history committee of the Cairo Congress of Arab Music (1932).