| His belief that music was not merely for entertainment but an expression of human aspiration imparted meaning to life | Qawm Ya Masry — "Rise you Egyptian"• Hw B'ynh M' Hyah Sbry — "The Proof of Her Patience"• Khfyf Al-Rawh — "Cave of The Soul"• His works sung by other voices are to be found on numerous records made by all the companies operating in early 20th-century Egypt |
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| During his childhood his family could not afford to pay for his education, so he was sent to a religious school where he mastered the recitation of the , studying under | Anecdotic arpeggios and chromaticism were for his contemporaries a token of modernism, but could be more severely judged nowadays |
El Hilwa — "The Beautiful One"• Coincidentally, on the day of his death, the national Egyptian leader returned from exile; the Egyptians sang Darwish's new song "", another national song by Sayed Darwish that was attributed to "Saad" and made especially to celebrate his return.
23| Most of his operetta tunes use musical modes compatible with the piano, even if some vocal sections use other intervals, and the singing techniques employed in those compositions reveal a fascination for Italian opera, naively imitated in a cascade of oriental melismas | Other compositions [ ] A selective number of compositions include:• Hagr Alya Baba — "Stone To Papa"• Death [ ] Sayed Darwish died a sudden death on 10 September 1923 at the age of 31 |
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| The light ditties of the comic plays are, from the modern point of view, much more interesting than the great opera-style arias | In his musical plays, catchy music and popular themes were combined in an attractive way |
He worked as a bricklayer in order to support his family, and it so happened that the manager of a theatrical troupe, the Syrian Attalah Brothers, overheard him singing for his fellows and hired him on the spot.
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