Yusef Greiss (Arabic: يوسف جريس; (December 13, 1899 in Cairo, Egypt – April 7, 1961 in Venice, Italy) was an Egyptian composer of classical music, part of that nation's first generation of such composers.
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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