Hasan Rashid

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Hasan Ahmad Rashid (Arabic: حسن أحمد رشيد‎; b. July 10, 1896; d. Cairo, May 25, 1969; also spelled Hasan Rasheed) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers. He is known for his sole opera Masra' Antonio (Antony's Death 1947-49), which has an Arabic text, based on the first part of Ahmed Shawky's play Cleopatra's Death.

Early in his life, he studied violin and singing in Cairo. Later going to England to pursue studies in agriculture, he continued studying violin and composition.

Rashid was married to the pianist and composer of children's songs Baheega Sidky Rasheed (1899-1987), who is best known for her 1958 collection entitled Egyptian Folk Songs (republished in the United States as Egyptian Folk Songs in Arabic and English. Together, they founded the Egyptian Amateur Music Association in 1942.