Anis Fuleihan: A Lebanese-Cypriot American Composer, Pianist, and Scholar Rooted in Eastern and Western Musical Traditions
Anis Fuleihan: A Lebanese-Cypriot American Composer, Pianist, and Scholar Rooted in Eastern and Western Musical Traditions Anis Fukeihan, photo from original 1919 document. Courtesy of Richard M. Breaux collection. Perhaps the best-known musician, pianist, composer, record manufacturer, in early twentieth-century Arab America was Alexander Maloof . Born in 1884, a composer of sheet music by 1900, and contributor to the idea of submitting a potential U.S. national anthem. We’ve featured both Maloof and the composer Leon S. Nahmee on Midwest Mahjar. While going through stories the name of composer, musician, and pianist - Anis Fuleihan. Born to Lebanese parents, Yasmine Nassif and Milheim Fuleihan, on 2 April 1900 near Kyrenia, Cyprus, Anis T. Fuleihan began playing piano at the age of four. Fuleihan claimed there had been no other musicians in his family except a “amateur lute player of some distinction” on his mother’s line of the family tree. An unknow...