List of Egyptian composers
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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]
Contents
First generation
- Daoud Hosni (1870- 1937)
- Zakariya Ahmad (1896– 1961)
- Yusef Greiss (1899–1961)
- Abu Bakr Khairat (1910–1963)
- Hasan Rashid (1896–1969)
- Aziz El-Shawan (1916–1993)
Second generation
- Farid al-Atrash (Syrian-Egyptian singer composer 1910–1974)
- Kamel El-Remali (b. 1922),
- Awatef Abdel Karim (born 1931)
- Gamal Abdel-Rahim (1924–1988)
- Sayed Awad (1926–2000)
- Halim El-Dabh (born 1921)
- Aziz El-Shawan (1916–1993)
- Soliman Gamil (1924–1994)
- Rifaat Garrana (born 1924)
- Tarek Ali Hassan (born 1937)
- Attia Sharara (born 1922)
Third generation
- Baligh Hamdi (1932–1993)
- Ahmed Abdallah
- Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (born 1962)
- Rageh Daoud (born 1954)
- Omar Khayrat (born 1949)
- Mona Ghoneim (born 1955)
- Sherif Mohie El Din (born 1964)
- Ali Osman (born 1958)
- Adel Kamel
See also
References
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- 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.
External links
- ↑ 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,"
