Sami Shawa
1=Music • Illustration — Image of Sami Al-Shawwa Sami Shawa or Sami Al-Shawwa (1887–1960) was a Syrian violinist. After creating a music school in Cairo in 1906, he became famous both for his solo performances and for having accompanied the great singers of the time, including Oum Kalsoum. He mastered almost all the musical styles, and modes of the Arab world at the time.
Also recorded as Sami Al-Shawwa · سامي الشوّا · Sāmī al‐Shawwā · Sami al-Shawa
Sami Shawa
- Full name
- سامي بن أنطون بن الياس الشَّوَّا.
- Born
- 1887 · Aleppo.
- Nationality
- Ottoman Empire · French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon · Syrian Republic under French mandate
- Occupation
- violinist · composer · instrumentalist · violist
- Fields
- classical
- Languages
- Arabic
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Recorded at birth as سامي بن أنطون بن الياس الشَّوَّا. Born at Aleppo in 1887, died in Damascus in 1965.
Yossef Greiss is recorded as having studied under Sami Shawa. The recorded working language is Arabic. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical.
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- 1.سامي الشوا. أمير الكمان العربي. صحيفة الخليج.
- 2.Aghawebmaster. أمير الكمان سامي الشوا : جمع فن حلب ونهوض القاهرة وحقق مكانة غير مسبوقة نافست نجومية كبار المطربين في عصره!. موقع موسوعة كتاب الأغاني الثاني للدكتور سعد الله آغا القلعة. 2019-10-23.
- 3.سامي الشوّا. www.daralsaqi.com.
- 4.Book – Sami al Shawwa. Mustafa Said.
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