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.
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[edit] First generation
- Yusef Greiss (1899 or 1905–1961)
- Abu Bakr Khairat (1910-1963)
- Hasan Rashid (1896-1969)
[edit] Second generation
- Awatef Abdel Karim (b. 1931)
- Gamal Abdel-Rahim (1924-1988)
- Shaban Abu El-Saad (1926-1988)
- Sayed Awad (1926-2000)
- Ahmad Ebeid (1916-1980)
- Halim El-Dabh (b. 1921)
- Michel El-Masry (b. 1933)
- Kamel El-Remaly (b. 1922)
- Aziz El-Shawan (1916-1993)
- Mohammed Hasan El-Shogaaiy (1899-1963)
- Fouad El-Zahery (1916-1988)
- Soliman Gamil (1924-1994)
- Rifaat Garrana (b. 1924)
- Ibrahim Haggag (1916-1987)
- Tarek Ali Hassan (b. 1937)
- Aly Ismail (1922-1974)
- Abdel-Halim Noweira (1916-1985)
- Baheega Sidky Rasheed (1899-1987)
- Attia Sharara (b. 1922)
- Youssef Shawky (1925-1987)
[edit] Third generation
- Nader Abbassi (b. 1963)
- Ahmed Abdallah
- Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (b. 1962)
- Adel Afifi (b. 1945)
- Youssef Aziz (b. 1946)
- Rageh Daoud (b. 1954)
- Ahmed El-Saedi (b. 1947)
- Ammar El-Sheree'ee (b. 1948)
- Mona Ghoneim (b. 1955)
- Sherif Mohie El Din (b. 1964)
- Alaaeddin Mustafa
- Amir Maher Naguib
- Ali Osman (b. 1958)
- Gamal Salamah (b. 1945)
- Khaled Shokry
[edit] Fourth generation
- Mohamed Saad Basha (b. 1972)
- Ahmed Madkour
- Wael Sami (b. 1976)
- Ramz Sabry Samy (b. 1973)
[edit] Composers whose generation is unknown
- Riad Abdel-Gawad (b. 1965)
- Fouad Fakhoury
- Bassam Noureddin
[edit] 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.
