Edmond Yafil

Edmond Nathan Yafil (1874 – October 1928) was an Algerian composer.

Biography

Native Jew born in Algiers in 1874, Yafil began, as all the musicians of his time, by attending the Moorish cafés of the old Casbah Algiers places where perpetuated the tradition of sanaa music, also referred to as Andalusian classical music.

He will collaborate with and on the cataloging of sanaa music and in theater with Mahieddine Bachtarzi and Ali Sellali. He is buried at the St. Eugene Cemetery.

Bibliography

• Répertoire de musique arabe et maure : collection de mélodies, ouvertures, noubet, chansons, préludes, etc. / recueillie par Edmond-Nathan Yafil, sous la direction de .

References

External links

• Biography
• Christopher Silver, Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa (Stanford University Press, 2022).