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Yusef Greiss

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Name
  
Yusef Greiss

Role
  
Composer

Died
  
1961


Yusef Greiss (Arabic: 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.

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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.

Performance

Solo violin and piano compositions are major parts in Greise’s compositions.

He wrote 23 solo piano compositions,

14 solo violin three solo flute,

six lyrical compositions with piano

and 10 orchestra compositions.

His Works

First: Solo piano compositions

  • The Sudanese, 1932
  • Nile Boatman, 1932
  • La Galerien, 1932
  • Good Luck, 1932
  • A Boat Burns, 1932
  • How Are You,1932
  • Truth, 1932
  • Little Palestinian, 1932
  • Happiness, 1932
  • A Night in the Boat,1945

    • Second: Solo violin compositions

  • The Bedouin No. 1931 of 1932
  • The Egyptian Village, No. 22 of 1932
  • Dance of the Palm Valley
  • Souvenir, No. 25 of 1932.
  • Son of the Valley, 1943
  • Bedouin Singing, 1944
  • Company of the Nile 1944,
  • Desert Songs, 1944
  • Sphinx and Violin, 1947
  • Daughter of Pyramids, 1961

    • Third: Violin and piano compositions

  • We Dance, 1928
  • Forest, 1929
  • On Bank of the Nile, 1931
  • The Carrier of Water, 1931
  • Greetings to Vienna, 1931
  • Dance of Palm Trees, 1932
  • In the Desert, 1932
  • Murrmering Scarabee, 1944
  • Romance, 1945
  • The Nile Sings, 1950

    • Fourth: Solo flute compositions

  • Echo of the Desert, 1944
  • Echo of the Valley, 1944
  • Echo of the Nile, 1944

    • Fifth : Solo cello compositions

  • The Man Peasant, 1922

    • Sixth : Cello and piano compositions

  • The Woman Peasant, 1923

    • Seventh : Lyrical compositions with piano

  • Song of the Valley, 1943.
  • Boat of Fate, 1944
  • Dance of the Nile, 1944
  • Song of the Shepherd, 1944
  • The Nile’s Song and Call, 1944
  • Dance of the Village, 1944

    • Eighth : Orchestral compositions

  • Egypt, Symphony, 1932
  • The Carrier of Water, 1932
  • Toward Desert Monastery, Symphony, 1934
  • The Nile and Rose, Symphony, 1943
  • Pharos’ Pyramids, Symphony, 1960

    • Most of his compositions remained unpublished up to now.

    On the Day of Art in 1981, the state honored and listed him in the Record of Immortals in the Arts Academy.

    References

    Yusef Greiss Wikipedia
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