Yusef Greiss

Yusef Greiss

Yusef Greiss ( _ar. يوسف جريس; (b. Cairo, Egypt, December 13, 1899; d. Venice, Italy, April 7, 1961) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers.

Greiss was of Coptic heritage. He composed orchestral works and chamber music. His patriotic work for orchestra entitled "Masr" (1932) is considered the first orchestral piece composed by an Egyptian.

As of 2008, the Egyptian musicologist Haig Avakian is editing and preparing Greiss's complete works for publication.

External links

* [http://phonoarchive.org/grove/Entries/S11736.htm Yusef Greiss page]

ee also

*List of Egyptian composers


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