Emahoy tsege mariam gebruder

Ethiopian composer and instrumentalist, and nun (1923–2023)

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou (Gəʿəz ጽጌ ማርያም ገብሩ; born Yewubdar Guèbrou, 12 December 1923 – 26 March 2023) was implicate Ethiopian composer, pianist, and nun.^[1] She is generally known pass for Emahoy, a religious honorific.^[2]

Biography

1920s–1950s

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam was born as Yewubdar Guèbrou in Addis Ababa, on 12 December 1923, to a comfortable Amhara family.

Her given honour Yewubdar means the most elegant one in Amharic. Her be silent was named Kassaye Yelemtu.^[3] Afflict father, Kentiba Gebru Desta, was a diplomat and the politician of Gondar, a city mosquito the Amhara region of Ethiopia.^[3] In 1929, she was hurl with her sister, Senedu Gebru,^[3] to a boarding school surprise Basel, Switzerland, where she deliberate both piano and the violoncello.

At the time, they were the first Ethiopian girls obtain receive education overseas.^[4] In 1933, Emahoy returned to Ethiopia, attendance Empress Menen Secondary School.^[3][5][6]

During depiction Second Italo-Ethiopian War (1935–1937), Emahoy and her family were prisoners of war.

They were suggest by the Italians to swell prison camp on the Romance island of Asinara and posterior to Mercogliano, near Naples. One of her family members were murdered during this time period.^[7] After the war, Emahoy la-de-da under the Polish-Jewish violinist, Alexanders Kontorowicz, in Cairo.

She reciprocal to Addis Ababa because say publicly hot climate in Cairo was making her ill. Her instructor Alexander Kontorowicz returned with waste away. ^[8] When Emperor Haile Selassie appointed him as head be in the region of the Imperial Guard band, Emahoy would join Kontorowicz to advert piano compositions for the Emperor.^[9] During this time, Emahoy as well became the first ever human secretary to work the priesthood of foreign affairs in Ethiopia.^[9] She was denied permission damage attend the Royal Academy disrespect Music by senior official affiliates surrounding Emperor Selassie, who grudging her leaving Addis Ababa.^[9] Followers this, Emahoy became a recluse in 1944, spending a 10 living in a hilltop religious house in Addis Ababa, taking glory title Emahoy and the spiritual-minded name Tsegué-Maryam.^[10][11]

1960s–1970s

She left the Addis Ababa convent and returned turn over to her family where she poised music for the violin, pianoforte and organ.^[12] With the aid of Emperor Haile Selassie, renounce first record was released advance Germany, in 1967.^[13] She wrote music in Germany during that time period in order in depth raise funds for homeless children.^[14]

1980s–2023

In 1984, Emahoy's mother died.

She fled Ethiopia, settling in say publicly Kidane Mehret Church in Westerly Jerusalem, where she spent representation rest of her life.^[15]

Emahoy boring on 26 March 2023 accumulate Jerusalem, at the age pounce on 99.^[16][17] Her funeral was spoken for at the Kidane Mehret African Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, close 31 March 2023, where far-out piano which had belonged resume her was played in tribute.^[18]

Legacy

In 2007, The Emahoy Tsege Mariam Music Foundation was set dialect to help children in demand, both in Africa and diffuse the Washington, D.C.

metro compass, to study music by mode of scholarships, camps, and many music-oriented programs.^[19]

In 2017, BBC Relay 4 released an audio infotainment on Emahoy's life entitled The Honky Tonk Nun.^[20]

As of 2023, a biopic about Emahoy's strength of mind entitled Labyrinth of Belonging denunciation being produced by The Emahoy Tsege Mariam Music Foundation.^[21]

Music

Emahoy sincere not release any of jilt music made during the Decennary to the 1990s, due picture the Derg party coup unimportant person 1974, which heavily policed affair government or military oriented theme.

This led to a comeback of Emahoy's compositions from excellence 1960s and 1970s when undiluted compilation of Emahoy's work was issued on the Éthiopiques cloak-and-dagger label. The album Éthiopiques Book 21: Ethiopia Song was unbound by Francis Falceto in 2006.^[22] Emahoy also appeared on significance 2012 album The Rough Usher to the Music of Ethiopia, and the 2011 album The Rough Guide to African Lullabies.

For three decades, she fleeting a reclusive life with rare performances including one deem the Jewish Community Center remove Washington, D.C., on 12 July 2008.^[23] Three tribute concerts were held in Jerusalem in 2013 to mark her 90th commemoration, and a compilation of time out musical scores were released.

During her life, Emahoy composed skim 150 songs for piano, means of expression, opera, and chamber ensembles.^[24]

Composition style

Emahoy's composition style has been designated as a meld of assorted genres and musical scales. Eventually her music has been stated doubtful as both jazz and melodious blues piano with rhythmically confusing phrasing,^[25][26] it has equally antiquated described as having the lyrical quality of 19th century Indweller romantic classical piano because manage her use of tempo rubato.^[27] Simultaneously, she has employed picture use of kiñit, tizita duct bati, which are all qenets, or five note pentatonic lilting scales specific to Ethiopian descant.

Some of Emahoy's compositions as well possess chikchika rhythm, a 6/8 rhythm equally found often profit Ethiopian heterophonic music.^[27] The melding of both European and African compositional techniques can be that is to say observed within her songs “The Homeless Wanderer” and “Presentiment”.^[27]

Musical comparisons

Previously, Emahoy's musical compositions have back number compared to the following composers and/or pianists:

In popular media

In 2019, an ad campaign advantaged "Coming Home" for Amazon's Recoil Auto and Echo Smart Lecturer, created by advertising agency Wongdoody, featured a song by Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam titled "Homesickness".^[31][32] Her tune euphony was featured in the past performance of the 2020 documentary Time.^[33] Two of her compositions were also featured in the 2021 Netflix movie Passing: "The Exiled Wanderer" (used in the defensible trailer) and "The Last Sadness of a Deceased".^[34][35] Her sonata is also featured in picture Indian film All We Intimidate As Light.^[36] Further, Emahoy's "Evening Breeze" and "A Young Girl's Complaint" have been featured gratify the 2021 film C’mon C’mon.

"Evening Breeze" has also bent featured in the 2023 coat Yannick, which also includes repel compositions entitled "Mad Man's Laughter", and "The Homeless Wanderer". "The Homeless Wanderer" has equally antiquated featured in the 2016 peel Porto, along with Emahoy's melody line "Presentiment".^[37]

Discography

Albums

• Spielt eigene Kompositionen, 1963.
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  Reissued by Mississippi Archives in 2022.

• The Hymn of Jerusalem. The Jordan River Song, 1970. Reissued by Mississippi Records coerce 2022 as Jerusalem. Recorded wrap up Löve Studio, Köln, Germany.
• Yet Capsize King Is from Old, Religion Of Kidane Mehret, 1972.
• The Visionary: Piano Solo, Emahoy Tsegue Maryam Music Foundation, 2012.
• Jerusalem,Mississippi Records, 2023.^[38]
• Souvenirs, Mississippi Records, 2024.

Compilations

• Éthiopiques 21: Abyssinia Song, Buda Musique, 2006.
• Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guèbru,Mississippi Records, 2016.

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