Aziz El-Shawan
Composer
1916 –
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Who is Aziz El-Shawan?
Aziz El-Shawan was an Egyptian composer of classical music. He is particularly known for his opera in Arabic Anas el-Wugood which was performed at the Cairo Opera House, 1970, 1995.
El-Shawan first studied economics in Egypt, then studied composition with Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory in the late 1950s and in 1967-68. His pupils included the Jordanian composer Haytham Sukareya and the Egyptian composers George Kyrillos and Ramz Sabry Samy.
His daughter, Dr. Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, is an ethnomusicologist and teaches at the New University of Lisbon in Lisbon, Portugal.
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