Yusef Greiss
Composer
1899 – 1961
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Who was Yusef Greiss?
Yusef Greiss 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.
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