Baghdad Conservatory

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Baghdad Conservatory
Type Music school
Established1936;89 years ago (1936)
Founder Hanna Petros
Location
Baghdad
,
Iraq

The Baghdad Conservatory, also known as Iraqi Music Institute, [1] Baghdad Institute of Music, [2] or Musical Institute & Academy of Fine Arts, [3] was a music conservatory in Baghdad, Iraq.

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History

Assyrian Iraqi composer and scholar Hanna Petros founded the institution in 1936. [4] [5] Şerif Muhiddin Targan was later appointed dean, but Petros continued to play a major role in the conservatory. [6] [7] [7]

The conservatory has produced such famous oud players as Munir Bashir, his brother Jamil Bashir (who both taught there [8] ), Salman Shukur, Ghanim Haddad, and Rahim AlHaj, who studied under Munir and Jamil Bashir as well as and composer and oud player Salim Abdul Kareem. [8]

The Iraqi maqam singer Farida Mohammad Ali studied singing at the college, and also taught there in the 1990s. She was the first female teacher. [9] [2]

In 2004, when Rahim AlHaj visited the city, after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he found the conservatory burnt out and empty. [8]

The Baghdad College of Fine Arts, part of the University of Baghdad, has its origins in the conservatory. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Jamil Bashir". Mike's Ouds. Rare Recordings. Archived from the original on 25 December 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  2. 1 2 Sloggett, Robyn (30 October 2015). "On the Banks of the Tigris – a documentary that traces the forgotten history of Iraqi music". University of Melbourne. Archived from the original on 18 November 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2025. Source: The Conversation
  3. ↑ "The Iraqi Maqam Ensemble". محمد حسين كَمر. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  4. ↑ "الراحل حنّا بطرس جزء من تاريخ الموسيقى في العهد الملكي". Addustour. 28 September 2010. Archived from the original on 28 March 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
  5. 1 2 "Hanna Petros". Assyrian Cultural Foundation. 17 February 2017. Archived from the original on 7 August 2025. Retrieved 17 October 2025.
  6. ↑ Al-Jabouri, Kamil Salman (2003). معجم الأدباء من العصر الجاهلي حتى سنة 2002م [Dictionary of Writers from the Pre-Islamic Era until 2002 AD]. Vol. 2. Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyyah. p. 278. ISBN   978-2-7451-3694-7. LCCN   2003489875. OCLC   54614801. OL   21012293M.
  7. 1 2 Zeitoune, Abboud (2016). Music Heritage of Mesopotamia. Assyrischer Jugendverband Mitteleuropa e.V. pp. 44–45. ISBN   978-3-00-053601-4.
  8. 1 2 3 "Rahim Alhaj: Iraqi oud soloist". Smithsonian Folkways. Artist Spotlight. 8 May 2014. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 16 October 2025.
  9. ↑ "Curriculum vitae: Farida Mohammad Ali". Iraqi Maqam ensemble. 10 February 2012. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 17 October 2025.


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