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Avniye Nazife Aral Güran (Nazife Güran, born Aral) (5 September 1921 – 20 December 1993) was a Turkish composer and pianist, born in Vienna of a diplomat father. She is one of the first Turkish female composers to write classical music. She studied music as a child with her mother and completed primary education inAnkara and high school inIstanbul. She continued her music education at theBerlin Hochschule Music Academy, studying withRudolph Schmidt for piano andPaul Hoffer for composition. After returning to Ankara, she studied withErnst Praetorius.
In 1952, she married Dr. Ismail Yilmaz Güran, had a son the next year, and then continued her studies at theCologne Music Academy. Returning to Turkey in 1969, she taught music at Cemberlitas Girls' High School and continued work as a composer.[1][2]
Nazife composed over a thousand works. Selected compositions include:
Her music has been recorded and issued on media, including:
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