‘Alī al-Darwīsh

Biography

Ali al-Darwish was an Aleppan musician and composer trained at the Mawlawi lodge and Istanbul’s Dar al-Alhan.

Invited to teach in Cairo in 1927, he attended the 1932 congress. He researched Tunisian traditions with d’Erlanger, taught at Rashidiyya and later in Baghdad in 1946. His music-reading treatise remained a manuscript.