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.
The most celebrated five composers in Egyptian history who lived in the 20th century are Sayed Darwish, Mohamed El Qasabgi, Dawoud Hosni, Zakariya Ahmad, Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Riad Al Sunbati.
Sayed Darwish (1892-1923)
Mohamed El Qasabgi (1892-1966)
Zakariya Ahmad (1896– 1961)
Yusef Greiss (1899–1961)
Abu Bakr Khairat (1910–1963)
Hasan Rashid (1896–1969)
Aziz El-Shawan (1916–1993)
Dawood Hosni (1870-1937)
Riad Al Sunbati (1906-1981)
Farid al-Atrash (1910–1974)
Kamel El-Remali (b. 1922),
Awatef Abdel Karim (born 1931)
Gamal Abdel-Rahim (1924–1988)
Sayed Awad (1926–2000)
Halim El-Dabh (born 1921)
Aziz El-Shawan (1916–1993)
Soliman Gamil (1924–1994)
Rifaat Garrana (born 1924)
Tarek Ali Hassan (born 1937)
Attia Sharara (born 1922)
Baligh Hamdi (1932–1993)
Muhammad Sultan
Ahmed Abdallah
Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (born 1962)
Rageh Daoud (born 1954)
Omar Khayrat (born 1949)
Mona Ghoneim (born 1955)
Sherif Mohie El Din (born 1964)
Ali Osman (born 1958)
Adel Kamel
