Composers
Əkrəm Babayev
Uzeyir Hajibeyli — the man who reconciled East and West in one score
Staged in Baku in 1908, “Leyli and Majnun” was the first opera in the Muslim East. Its author also wrote the theory of mugham.
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Articles on music licensing, production and Eastern music.
Composers
Əkrəm Babayev
Muslim Magomayev — from “Shah Ismail” to “Nargiz”
Uzeyir Hajibeyli's lifelong friend and the second founder of Azerbaijani classical music. The State Philharmonic bears his name.
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Əkrəm Babayev
Zulfugar Hajibeyov — the founder of musical comedy
Uzeyir's elder brother and Niyazi's father — author of the opera “Ashiq Gharib” and a founder of the Musical Comedy Theatre.
Composers
Əkrəm Babayev
Gara Garayev — Shostakovich's student, a school's teacher
“Seven Beauties”, “Path of Thunder”, the Third Symphony — and an entire generation of Azerbaijani composers.
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Əkrəm Babayev
Fikret Amirov — the inventor of symphonic mugham
In 1948, “Shur” and “Kurd Ovshari” created a new genre: the formal logic of mugham transferred to the symphony orchestra.
Composers
Əkrəm Babayev
Soltan Hajibeyov — the author of “Caravan”
A single symphonic picture can carry a composer's whole name. “Caravan” is such a piece.
Composers
Əkrəm Babayev
Jovdat Hajiyev — a pillar of Azerbaijani symphonism
Eight symphonies and the opera “Motherland”, written with Gara Garayev — the most consistent symphonist of the national school.
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Əkrəm Babayev
Niyazi — the composer behind the podium
He led the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra for half a century and wrote the symphonic mugham “Rast”.