Attia Sharara is an Egyptian composer, arranger, violinist, and conductor. He is a member of that nation's second generation of classical composers. He studied traditional Egyptian music at the ? Fuad I Institute for Traditional Music, where he also studied Western classical music for four years. He has had a career as a virtuoso violinist performing in traditional Arabic styles, and played for a time in the orchestras that accompanied Mohamed Abdel-Wahab and ? Umm Kulthum. He began composing monodic music in 1950, and gradually adopted more Western musical techniques. He has composed vocal, chamber, and orchestral music, and one operetta, The Crystal Ball. He has conducted the Broadcasting Oriental Orchestra in ? Cairo. In addition, in the 1950s he traveled to many Arab countries, forming Middle Eastern traditional ensembles and founding music institutes. Among his compositions are two Arab concertos for violin, composed in 1970 and 1977, which are light works quoting several popular and folk tunes. He has also composed several concertos for ? nay (Egyptian cane flute), a concerto for ? 'ud, and another for cello.

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