11 Facts About Wadia Sabra

Wadia Sabra was a Lebanese composer and founder of the Conservatoire Libanais.

Wadia Sabra was born in 1876 in the village of Ain el Jdideh and died in Beirut in 1952.

Wadia Sabra married Adele Misk in 1921 and had no children.

Wadia Sabra was buried in the Evangelical Cemetery in Sodeco Beirut.

Wadia Sabra is best known today as the composer of the Lebanese National Anthem, popularly known as Kulluna lil Watan, which was officially adopted by the Lebanese Government through a presidential decree on 12 July 1927.

Wadia Sabra is considered the founding father of classical music in Lebanon.

Wadia Sabra stayed for 7 years where he studied with the musicologist Albert Lavignac.

Wadia Sabra took a job as the principal organist of the Evangelical Church of the Holy Spirit.

Wadia Sabra then returned to Beirut, where he founded, in 1910, the first School of Music.

Wadia Sabra was "in ruins" after spending all his money on his work; hence, after many unsuccessful requests of grants and retirement pension to the Lebanese government, his wife, Adele Misk, went to live with her nephew Dr Robert Misk.

Wadia Sabra had an oriental piano manufactured by Pleyel in Paris in 1920.