Background
The son of Habashi Moftah and Labiba Shalaby, Moftah was one of 9 children.
The son of Habashi Moftah and Labiba Shalaby, Moftah was one of 9 children.
He studied in Germany at the Faculty of Agriculture in the University of Bonn in the Rhineland and obtained a Bachelor of Science 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 Saint Mary Coptic Orthodox Church Kasriet El-Rihan in Old Cairo.
In 1927 he invited Professor Ernest Newlandsmith from London, who transcribed all the Coptic Heritage 1928-1936.
He co-authored the article on "Coptic Music" for the Coptic Encyclopedia. He spent much of his life studying the recording and notation of Coptic liturgical texts. In 1955 he was responsible for the Music & Hymn Department at the and moved the primary studio he had already made in Saint Mary Church.
He began recording the hymns and all the Church services with Mlm.
Mikhail"s voice and then published in more talented voices on cassette tapes, for a total of 54 tapes. to be kept over generations using the latest technology. In 1998 The American University in Cairo published the Music transcription of Saint Basil"s Massachusetts