Hormoz Farhat was born on 9 August 1928, in Tehran, the capital city of what was then Imperial State of Persia, but renamed in 1935 as Iran.[5] His father Ebrahim Farat was a senior official at the Persian Ministry of Finance married to his mother Sedique.[4] The Farhat family had descended from a long line of "secularised Muslims", many of whom were civil servicemen like Ebrahim.[4] His cousin Shahin Farhat also became a composer.[6] According to Farhat himself, his early exposure to Iranian music was limited to his father occasionally playing the tar.[7] Instead, he recalls that his ""early musical outlook was mainly western", later filtered through the country's radio station that was established in 1939.[7]
Farhat died in Dublin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin), Ireland, aged 93. In December 2021 the University College Cork and the University of Tehran jointly organised a virtual memorial for Prof. Farhat.[15]
Two Songs on Poems by Sa'di, for soprano, violin and harp (1957)
Be Yad-e Neyshapur [In Memory of Neyshapur]; a "chain" of seven songs on Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1959)
Three Persian Songs, for soprano, flute, cello and piano (1962)
several pieces for a cappella choir
Motion picture scores
Scores for feature films by prominent Iranian film directors Dariush Mehrjui: Gaav (The Cow, 1969), Postchi (Postman), and Aagha-ye Haaloo (Mr. Naive, 1970); and Nasser Taghvai: Aaraamesh dar hozoor-e digaraan (Tranquility in the Presence of Others, 1972); and Saadegh Kordeh (Sadeq the Kurdish, 1973). In 1970, Farhat was awarded The Golden Plaque for Best Music for the score of Mehrjui's internationally acclaimed film Gaav.[21]
Selected publicationsedit
Books:
The Traditional Art Music of Iran (Tehran: Ministry of Culture and Arts Press, 1973).
Farhat, Hormoz (2004) [1990]. The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-54206-7.
Present Past: Notes from the Life of a Persian/American Composer in Ireland. Ibex Publishers, Bethesda, 2018.
Rhapsody Mazandarani for Orchestra (Amsterdam: Persian Dutch Network, 2020).[22]
Persian Translations:
Counterpoint by Kent Kennan (Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 1974).
Dastgah dar Musiqi-ye Irani (a Persian translation by Mehdi Pur-Mohammad of "The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music") (Tehran: Part Press, 2002).
Articles
"Old and New Values in Changing Cultural Patterns", in Iran: Past, Present and Future (Aspen Institute, 1976).[23]
64 articles in the Persian encyclopaedia Daerattomaaref (Tehran: -e Farsi, 1976).
The article on Iran in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (London: MacMillan, 1980).
"Scales and Intervals: Theory and Practice", in Irish Musical Studies, ed. Gerard Gillen and Harry White (Blackrock County Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1990).
"Western Influences on Persian Music", in Muzikolski Zbornik (Musicological Annual) XVII (Ljubljana, 1991).
"The Evolution of Style and Content in Performance Practices of Persian Traditional Music", in: Muzikoloski Zbornik (Musicological Annual) XXXIII (Ljubljana, 1997).[24]
Farhat, Hormoz (2012). "An Introduction to Persian Music" (PDF). Catalogue of the Festival of Oriental Music. Durham: University of Durham.
Referencesedit
Citationsedit
^"Present Past: Notes from the Life of a Persian/American Composer in Ireland". Ibex Publishers. 4 June 2018. ISBN 9781588141415.
^"Former Trinity Chair of Music, Composer Hormoz Farhat, honoured in homeland Iran". Trinity College Dublin. 9 May 2018.
^Kayhan Life Staff (25 August 2021). "Remembering Hormoz Farhat, Celebrated Iranian Composer and Musician". KayhanLife. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
^ abcde"Hormoz Farhat obituary: Gifted composer and much-loved teacher at TCD". The Irish Times. 9 October 2021. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
^De Bréadún, Deaglán (29 August 2021). "Obituary: Hormoz Farhat, professor of music at Trinity College and a renowned composer and author". Irish Independent. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
^"Composer Hormoz Farhat honored in homeland Iran". Tehran Times. 4 May 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
^""Rhapsody Mazandarani" for Orchestra: New Publication from Persian Dutch Network". PDN. 23 May 2020.
^"Search Results - "Iran: past, present and future"".
^Farhat, Hormoz (1 January 1997). The evolution of style and content in performance practices of Persian traditional music. Vol. 33. Cambridge University Press. pp. 81–89. ISBN 978-0-521-54206-7. OCLC 444316548.
Caton, Margaret (Spring–Summer 1992). "Reviewed Work: The Dastgāh Concept in Persian Music by Hormoz Farhat". Asian Music. 23 (2): 168–171. doi:10.2307/834179. JSTOR 834179.
External linksedit
String Quartet No. 2 by Hormoz Farhat
An Interview with Hormoz Farhat (Video: BBC Persian TV)
A Tribute to Hormoz Farhat (Contemporary Music Centre, Dublin, Ireland)