Ragheb Moftah

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Dr. Ragheb Moftah (1898-2001) was an Egyptian musicologist and scholar of the Coptic music heritage. He spent much of his life studying the recording and notation of Coptic liturgical texts. The son of Habashi Moftah and Labiba Shalaby, Moftah was one of 10 children. * He studied in Germany at the Faculty of Agriculture in the University of Bonn in the Rhineland obtained a BSc in agriculture. His great passion was music. He obtained degrees in Music from Bonn and in Catholic Southern Germany at the University of Munich. He made a studio at St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church Kasriet El-Rihan in Old Cairo. * In 1927 he invited Prof. Ernest Newlandsmith from London, who transcribed all the Coptic Heritage 1928-1936.