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Yousef Khasho is a major Palestinian composer and musician.

Background
At the age of five Yousef Khasho became an orphan and found refuge in the orphanage belonging to the Franciscan Fathers in Jerusalem.

From the end of the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, several western Christian missionary schools had been founded. These schools brought western classical music and the practice of writing musical notation to Palestine, which paved the way for the development of written musical composition in the country. Franciscan monks were among the first to teach music to Palestinian children and youth to prepare them to perform in church services. One of the first Palestinians to study under the monks was Augustin Lama (1901–88), who then taught classical western music to other Palestinian musicians. Among Lama's most well-known students were Salvador Arnita (1914–84) and Yousef Khasho (1927–96). Lama composed primarily for the church. Arnita studied music in Italy ; prior to the Nakba, he was instrumental in promoting classical music, a genre whose popularity remained fairly limited at the time.