The following is a list of Egyptian music composers. Riyad elsonbaty with Um kalthoum

Pioneers

According to the work of the Egyptian musicologist Samha El-Kholy, the first generation of Egyptians to begin writing in modern Egyptian classical style were born around the turn of the 20th century. Among the most celebrated composers in Egyptian history who lived in the 20th century are Sayed Darwish, Mohamed El Qasabgi,

Baligh Hamdi Baligh Hamdi ( arz, بليغ حمدى ; 7 October 1931 – 12 September 1993) was an Egyptian composer who created and composed many hit songs for several Middle Eastern singers, especially during the 1960s and 1970s. He composed Warda's mos ...

Mohamed Fawzi Mohamed Fawzi may refer to: *Mohamed Fawzi (general) (1915–2000), Egyptian general * Mohamed Fawzi (artist) (1918–1966), Egyptian composer and singer * Mohamed Fawzi (footballer) (born 1990), Emirati football player See also *Mahmoud Fawzi (190 ...

Zakariya Ahmad Zakariyya Ahmad ( ar, زكريا أحمد; born 1896 in Faiyum, Egypt –1961) was an Egyptian musician and composer. He mainly sang religious songs as a member of several groups from 1919 to 1929, having studied recitation of the Qur'an u ...

Mohamed Abdel Wahab ''Mohamed Abdel Wahab'' ( ar, محمد عبد الوهاب), also transliterated ''Mohamed Abd El-Wahhab'' (March 13, 1902 – May 4, 1991), was a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer. He is best known for his Romantic an ...

, Riad El Sunbati and many others.

First generation

* Sayed Darwish (1892–1923) * Mohamed El Qasabgi (1892–1966) *

(1896–1961) * Yusef Greiss (1899–1961) *

Abu Bakr Khairat Abu Bakr Khairat (10 April 1910 – 1963) ( ar, أبو بكر خيرت); also spelled Abu Bakr Khayrat) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers. An architect by profession, Khairat stu ...

(1910–1963) *

Hasan Rashid Hasan Ahmad Rashid ( ar, حسن أحمد رشيد: also spelled Hassan Rasheed; July 10, 1896 – May 25, 1969) was an Egyptian composer and operatic baritone. He was part of Egypt's first generation of classical composers. Biography As a you ...

(1896–1969) * Aziz El-Shawan (1916–1993) *

Dawood Hosni Dawood Hosni (born David Haim Levi, 26 February 1870 – 10 December 1937) was an Egyptian music composer. Biography Dawood's father, Khidr Hossnei, was a jeweler. Dawood's family were Karaite Jews. Dawood was apprenticed to a bookbinder, Sukkar B ...

(1870–1937)

Second generation

(1902–1991) * Riad El Sunbati (1906–1981) * Farid al-Atrash (1910–1974) *

Kamel El-Remali Kamel Al Rimali (born 1922) was an Egyptian classical composer.Malcolm Floyd ''Composing the music of Africa: composition, interpretation, and realisation'' El-Remali, Kamel compositions p343 life p342 ''Al-Ahram'' review of this book: chapter by A ...

(b. 1922), *

Awatef Abdel Karim Awatef Abdel Karim ( ar, عواطف عبدالكريم; 8 February 1931 - 24 April 2021) was an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. Karim was the first Egyptian female composer to formally study music composition. She composed for ...

(1931–2021) * Gamal Abdel-Rahim (1924–1988) * Sayed Awad (1926–2000) *

Halim El-Dabh Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh ( ar, حليم عبد المسيح الضبع, ''Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍab''ʻ; March 4, 1921 – September 2, 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had ...

(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

(1932–1993) *

Rageh Daoud Rageh Sami Daoud ( ar, راجح داود; born November 23, 1954; first name also spelled Ragueh and last name also spelled Dawood) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. He is a member of that nation's third generation of such ...

(born 1954) * Omar Khayrat (born 1949) * Mona Ghoneim (born 1955) * Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (born 1962) * Sherif Mohie El Din (born 1964) * Ali Osman (1958–2017) *

Adel Kamel Adel Kamel (1942–2003) عادل كامل was a music critic, musicologist and composer. He was one of the writers in ''Watani'' newspaper, the founder of “Panorama” section, a lecturer in Universities in Egypt and abroad, a member of ju ...

(1942–2003)

Fourth generation

* Hesham Nazih (born 1972)

References

* 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. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Egyptian Composers Egyptian

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Egyptian Composers