List of Egyptian composers
The following is a list of Egyptian composers of classical music. According to the work of the Egyptian musicologist Samha El-Kholy, the first generation of Egyptians to begin writing in this style were born around the turn of the 20th century.[1]
The Major five[]
The most celebrated five composers in Egyptian history who lived in the 20th century are Sayed Darwish, Mohamed El Qasabgi, Zakariya Ahmad, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Riad Al Sunbati.[2]
First generation[]
- Sayed Darwish (1892–1923)
- Mohamed El Qasabgi (1892–1966)
- Zakariya Ahmad (1896–1961)
- Yusef Greiss (1899–1961)
- Abu Bakr Khairat (1910–1963)
- Hasan Rashid (1896–1969)
- Aziz El-Shawan (1916–1993)
- Dawood Hosni (1870–1937)
Second generation[]
- Mohamed Abdel Wahab (1902–1991)
- Riad Al Sunbati (1906–1981)
- Farid al-Atrash (1910–1974)
- Kamel El-Remali (b. 1922),
- Awatef Abdel Karim (1931–2021)
- Gamal Abdel-Rahim (1924–1988)
- Sayed Awad (1926–2000)
- Halim El-Dabh (1921–2017)
- Aziz El-Shawan (1916–1993)
- Soliman Gamil (1924–1994)
- Rifaat Garrana (born 1924)
- Tarek Ali Hassan (born 1937)
- Ezz Eddin Hosni (1927–2013)
Third generation[]
- Baligh Hamdi (1932–1993)
- Muhammad Sultan
- Ahmed Abdallah
- Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (born 1962)
- Rageh Daoud (born 1954)
- Omar Khayrat (born 1949)
- Mona Ghoneim (born 1955)
- Moody El Imam (born 1957)
- Sherif Mohie El Din (born 1964)
- Yasser Abdel Rahman (born 1961)
- Ali Osman (1958–2017)
- Adel Kamel (1942–2003)
Fourth generation[]
- (born 1972)
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Malcolm Floyd Composing the music of Africa: composition, interpretation, and realisation – Al-Ahram review of this book: chapter by Adel Kamel chapter "Egyptian Composition in the Twentieth Century,"
- ^ "كلاسيكيات الموسيقى العربية - الخمسة الكبار".
- Castelo-Branco, Salwa El-Shawan (2001). "Egypt: Western Music." In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed.
- El-Kholy, Samha (1992). Al-qawmiyya fī mūsīqā al-qarn al-‘ishrīn’ (Nationalism in 20th-century music). Kuwait: World of Knowledge.
- El-Kholy, Samha, and John O. Robison, eds. (1993). Festschrift for Gamal Abdel-Rahim. The Occasional Paper Series, v. 2, no. 2. Cairo: The Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt.
- El-Kholy, Samha, ed. (1999). Al-ta'lif al-masri al mu'asir (Contemporary Egyptian Composition). Cairo.
- El-Shawan, Salwa (1985). "Western Music and Its Practitioners in Egypt (ca. 1825–1985): The Integration of a New Musical Tradition in a Changing Environment." Asian Music, v. 17, no. 1 (1985), pp. 145–153.
- Shehab, Yaz (1996). "Contemporary Egyptian Music." D.M.A. dissertation. Urbana: University of Illinois.
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