Education
After finishing preparatory school, he studied oriental music at the hands of an Ottoman army officer from 1914–1918 and was shortly employed at the Ottoman military band in 1918.
After finishing preparatory school, he studied oriental music at the hands of an Ottoman army officer from 1914–1918 and was shortly employed at the Ottoman military band in 1918.
He wrote numerous books and treatises on oriental music, Iraqi Maqams and Syriac hymnody. He also established a renowned conservatory in Baghdad. Hanna Petros was an ethnic Assyrian, born to a Chaldean Catholic family in Mosul in 1896.
He subsequently worked as an instructor for scouting groups in Mosul in 1921.
Later in 1924 he was asked to compose music for the Iraqi army"s marching bands. Şerif Muhiddin Targan was later appointed as the conservatory"s dean and Hanna Petros continued to play a major role in the conservatory.
lieutenant was then that he wrote most of his books Moreover, he often appeared on the national radio to perform some of his musical works.
Hanna Petros died after a heart attack on 1958, and was buried at the Chaldean cemetery in Baghdad.