Pioneers
According to the research of Egyptian music expert Samha El-Kholy, the first group of Egyptians to write music in the modern Egyptian style were born around the beginning of the 1900s.
Some of the most well-known composers in Egyptian history who lived during the 1900s include Sayed Darwish, Mohamed El Qasabgi, Baligh Hamdi, Mohamed Fawzi, Zakariya Ahmad, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Riad El Sunbati, and many others.
First generation
- Sayed Darwish lived from 1892 to 1923
- Mohamed El Qasabgi lived from 1892 to 1966
- Zakariya Ahmad lived from 1896 to 1961
- Yusef Greiss lived from 1899 to 1961
- Abu Bakr Khairat lived from 1910 to 1963
- Hasan Rashid lived from 1896 to 1969
- Aziz El-Shawan lived from 1916 to 1993
- Dawood Hosni lived from 1870 to 1937
Second generation
- Mohamed Abdel Wahab (born 1902, died 1991)
- Riad El Sunbati (born 1906, died 1981)
- Farid al-Atrash (born 1910, died 1974)
- Kamel El-Remali (born 1922)
- Awatef Abdel Karim (born 1931, died 2021)
- Gamal Abdel-Rahim (born 1924, died 1988)
- Sayed Awad (born 1926, died 2000)
- Halim El-Dabh (born 1921, died 2017)
- Aziz El-Shawan (born 1916, died 1993)
- Soliman Gamil (born 1924, died 1994)
- Rifaat Garrana (born 1929, died 2017)
- Tarek Ali Hassan (born 1937)
- Ezz Eddin Hosni (born 1927, died 2013)
Third generation
- Baligh Hamdi (1932 to 1993)
- Rageh Daoud (born in 1954)
- Omar Khayrat (born in 1949)
- Mona Ghoneim (born in 1955)
- Sherif Nour (born in 1958)
- Mohamed Abdelwahab Abdelfattah (born in 1962)
- Sherif Mohie El Din (born in 1964)
- Ali Osman (1958 to 2017)
- Adel Kamel (1942 to 2003)