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Egyptian Composers
The following is a list of Egyptian music composers. 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, Mohamed Fawzi, Zakariya Ahmad, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Riad El Sunbati and many others. 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 El 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riyad Elsonbaty With Um Kalthoum
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Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Mohamed Abdel Wahab (), also transliterated ''Mehammad Abdelwehab'', (March 13, 1902 – May 4, 1991), was a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer. He is best known for his Romantic and Egyptian patriotic songs. He was known for his Egyptian nationalist and Arab nationalist and revolutionary songs like "Ya Masr Tamm Elhana" (O Egypt, happiness is here), "Hayy Ala Elfalah" (The call of duty), " Elwatan Elakbar" (The Greater Homeland), "El Geal El Saed" (The rising generation) "Masr Nadetna fa labbena Elnedaa" (Egypt Called us and we Have Answered), "Ulo le Masr" (Tell Egypt), "Hobb Elwatan Fard Alayya" (Patriotism is my Obligation), "Sot Elgamahir" (Voice of the Masses), "Ya Nesmet Elhorriyya" (O The Breeze of Freedom), "Sawa'ed men Beladi" (Arms from My Country). He also composed the national anthem of Libya which was adopted from 1951 to 1969 and again since 2011. Life Mohamed Abdel Wahab was born in 1898 in Cairo, Egypt, in a neighborhood called ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mona Ghoneim
Mona Ghoneim (; b. 1955; first name also spelled Mauna) is an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. She is a member of that nation's third generation of such composers. Ghoneim studied piano with E. Puglisi and composition with Gamal Abdel-Rahim at the Cairo Conservatoire beginning in 1962; she graduated with a degree in composition in 1977 and in 1978 with a degree in piano. She holds a doctorate from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university established in 1817 located in Vienna. With a student body of over three thousand, it is the largest institution of its kind in Austria, and one of t ..., and serves as a professor in the Conducting and Composition Department at the Cairo Conservatoire. She is married to Rageh Daoud (b. 1954), who is also an Egyptian composer. She has composed chamber, vocal, and piano music, as well as music for the docume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Khayrat
Omar Khairat (; born November 11, 1948) is an Egyptian musician. He has gained recognition for his versatile talents as a composer, pianist, conductor and arranger. Early life Born in Cairo, Omar was raised in a family of musicians. His uncle, Abu Bakr Khairat, a composer and architect, established the Cairo Conservatoire. Career Omar was a drummer for the Egyptian rock band Les Petits Chats until 1971. Works In January 2019, Omar Khairat performed a live concert in al-Ula, Saudi Arabia. He has performed across North Africa, the Middle East, and Europe with appearances in numerous countries including Russia, Spain, Italy, Slovenia, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Bharain, Qatar, Morrocco and Tunisia. See also * List of Egyptian composers *Music of Egypt Music has been an integral part of Egyptian culture since antiquity in Egypt. Egyptian music had a significant impact on the development of ancient Greek music, and via the Greeks it was important to early European mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rageh Daoud
Rageh Sami Daoud (; 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 composers. He has composed for piano, voice, and orchestra, and has written a number of film scores. Life and career Rageh Daoud was born in Cairo. He began his studies at the Cairo Conservatoire at the age of nine, later studying composition there with Gamal Abdel-Rahim, graduating in 1977. He also studied piano with Ettore Puglisi. While continuing his piano studies with him, he attended the composition class which the late Gamal Abdel-Rahim had founded at the Conservatoire, where he studied with him composition, the theory of traditional Arab modes and contemporary composition. In 1977 he obtained his diploma in musical composition with honors. He was appointed assistant at the Composition Dept. of the Conservatoire in 1978. In 1981 he got a scholarship to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezz Eddin Hosni
Ezz Eddin Hosni (15 June 1927 Cairo, Egypt–2013, Cairo), was an Egyptian composer. He is noted for writing tunes performed by some of Egypt's leading singers. Life and career Ezz Eddin Hosni was the son of Arabic language and Islamic Syrian Kurdish calligrapher, Mohammad Hosni, and his first wife, a middle classed Egyptian woman.''Aawsat'', No. 828, 3 August 2001Online:/ref> He was the oldest child in what became a very large family. He had three full brothers (Nabil, Farouk and Sami) and four full sisters (Khadega, Samira, Nagat and Afaf); and following his parents' divorce, he had three half-sisters (Kawthar, Soad, Sabah) from his father's second marriage and an additional three young half-brothers (Gaheer, Gasser and Galaa (named after the Egyptian ceremony) plus three half-sisters (Gehan, Janjah and Geely) from his mother's second marriage, giving a total of sixteen siblings. He was raised in his father's home in the Khan El-Khalili, Egyptian folk and vibrant district of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarek Ali Hassan
Tarek Ali Hassan (, 19 October 1937 – 8 September 2024) was an Egyptian endocrinologist who was a professor of medicine and chief of endocrinology at Al-Azhar University in Cairo. He was also a composer, musician, writer, painter, and philosopher. His music, in a modern Polyphony, polyphonic style, had been performed in Egypt and in many countries. Hassan published major dramatic works in English and in Arabic. He was a member of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and his name was recorded in the International Who's Who in Music 11th edition 1988 for his great contribution in the music world. He was chairman of the Zenab Kamel Hassan Foundation for Holistic Human Development, which works on human development and empowerment issues in the Imbaba district of Cairo. Hassan made great contributions in the society especially in medicine and music field besides representing one of the central values of human being and he saw that "We need a really modern constitution, which protects the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rifaat Garrana
Mohamed Garrana Rifaat (; surname also spelled Garana, 29 January 1929 – 2 April 2017) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, a member of that nation's second generation of such composers. Garrana was born in Cairo on 29 January 1929. He began playing the trumpet at age 12, studying it later at the Institute for Dramatic Music. He later studied with Hans Hickmann and Menato in Cairo. His works feature the juxtaposition of Egyptian traditional and religious music with Western music. He has composed orchestral works (including several symphonic poems). His concerto for '' qanun'' and orchestra is the first composition to combine this Arabic instrument with symphony orchestra. In addition to his compositional activities, he served as director of the music division of Egyptian television. His daughter, the flutist Maha Garrana, has performed his music. Rifaat Garrana died on 2 April 2017, at the age of 88. Compositions *Oriental Dance, flute and string orchestra *Concert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soliman Gamil
Soliman Gamil (; December 24, 1924 in Alexandria, Egypt – June 13, 1994) was an Egyptian composer and '' qanun'' player. In 1963, he began to experiment with the use of Egyptian traditional musical instruments in his compositions for films and theater, in an effort to evoke the sounds of Ancient Egypt. He also wrote about music for the ''Al-Ahram'' newspaper. Discography *1979 - ''Die Ägyptische Musik''. Egyptian State Information Service BAR1. *1982 - '' L'Art Du Qânûn Egyptien''. Arion ARN 36696. *1987 - ''The Egyptian Music''. Touch TO:7. *1990 - ''Ankh''. Touch TO:14. *1997 - ''A Map of Egypt Before the Sands''. Touch T33.15. See also *List of Egyptian composers The following is a list of Egyptian music composers. 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 ... References 1924 births 1994 deaths Egyptian com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halim El-Dabh
Halim Abdul Messieh El-Dabh (, ''Ḥalīm ʻAbd al-Masīḥ al-Ḍab''ʻ; 4 March 1921 – 2 September 2017) was an Egyptian-American composer, musician, ethnomusicologist, and educator, who had a career spanning six decades. He is particularly known as an early pioneer of electronic music. In 1944 he composed one of the earliest known works of tape music, or musique concrète. From the late 1950s to early 1960s he produced influential work at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Early life El-Dabh was born and grew up in Sakakini, Cairo, Egypt, a member of a large and affluent Coptic Christian family that had earlier emigrated from Abutig in the Upper Egyptian province of Asyut. The family name means "the hyena" and is not uncommon in Egypt. In 1932 the family relocated to the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. Following his father's profession of agriculture, he graduated from Fuad I University in 1945 with a degree in agricultural engineering, while also info ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayed Awad
Sayed Awad (1926–2000; ) was an Egyptian composer of contemporary classical music. He began his career as a violinist for the orchestra of the Cairo Opera House and later lived in Jordan. He studied in Moscow with the Russian violinist and conductor David Oistrakh and received a Ph.D. in music there in 1968. Sayed Awad was a music teacher at Yarmouk University (Irbid, Jordan) from 1982-1986, he taught; violin, music theory and history. Awad had a lot of influence on the music movement in Jordan and Egypt, he was the first one to compose an orchestral work for the Oud and the orchestra, which was dedicated to his student and close friend Seifed Din Abdoun. He is best known for his ''Yarmouk Symphony'', and for his three-act opera '' The Death of Cleopatra'', which is based on the epic poem by Ahmed Shawqi. External linksSayed Awad page [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamal Abdel-Rahim
Gamal Abdel-Rahim ( ) (November 25, 1924 – November 23, 1988) was a distinguished Egyptian classical music composer and composition professor. Life and career Abdel-Rahim was born in Cairo to a musical father, and began playing the piano at an early age. His early musical studies were supported by the Music Society of the Faculty of Arts of Cairo University (then called Fuad I University), graduating with a degree in history. In 1950 he began university studies in musicology at the Musikhochschule of Heidelberg in West Germany, deciding on a career as a composer. From 1952 to 1957 he studied composition with Harald Genzmer (a pupil of Paul Hindemith) at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. In 1959, Abdel-Rahim was appointed to teach theory and harmony at the newly opened Cairo Conservatory of Music. He was later appointed head of the composition department there (the first of its kind in the Arab world), which he founded in 1971. Abdel-Rahim was quite influential among Eg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
