Today is birthday of prominent Azerbaijani Composer Fikret Amirov ! youtu.be/9jXX3jMxtg4 Fikret Mashadi Jamil oghlu Amirov (Fikrət Məşədi Cəmil oğlu Əmirov) - was Born on November 22, 1922, in Azerbaijani City of Ganja in Azerbaijani family. Fikret Amirov grew up in an atmosphere of Azerbaijani folk music. His father, Mashadi Jamil Amirov, was a famous mugam singer (xanəndə) from Shusha, who played tar and composed, including the 1915 opera Seyfal mulk. During his childhood and early adolescence, Fikret began composing pieces for the piano. Upon his graduation from the Ganja Music College, Amirov entered the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire, now known as the Baku Music Academy, where he was a student of Boris Zeidman and Uzeyir Hajibeyov. In 1941, when Nazi Germany attacked the USSR, Amirov, 19 at the time, was drafted to the Soviet army. He was wounded near Voronezh, hospitalized and demobilized from the military service, returning to Baku to continue his studies at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. Amirovs music was strongly influenced by Azeri folk melodies. He created a new genre called symphonic mugam. Amirovs symphonic mugams were based on classical folk pieces and were performed by many renowned symphony orchestras throughout the world, such as the Houston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski. Influence by Azerbaijani national music Mugham he composed the Instrumental version of the most famous tasnifs created series of Symphonic Mugham series such as Shur (1946), Kurd Ovshari (1949), Azerbaijan Capriccio (1961), Gulustan Bayati-Shiraz (1968), The Legend of Nasimi (1977). His ballets include Nizami (1947) and 1,001 Nights, (sometimes referred to as The Arabian Nights) which premiered in 1979. Amirov wrote the opera Sevil in 1953. ---------------------------------------------------- Subscribe on Youtube/Подписывайтесь на Ютубе: youtube/user/NagornoKarabakhAZ youtube/user/HaciChelebi On Facebook/На Фейсбуке: https://facebook/NagornoKarabakhAZ On Twitter/ В Твиттере: https://twitter/NagorNKarabakh Live Journal / На ЖЖ: NagornoKarabakh.livejournal/ VKontakte/ В Контакте: vk/NagornoKarabakhRU Odnoklassniki /Одноклассники odnoklassniki.ru/NagornoKarabakh ---------------------------------------------------- #music #classic #symphony #mugham #mugam #composer #MorgheSahar #Azerbaijan #Baku #Gadja #Shusha #Karabakh #FikretAmirov #AzeriMusic #AzerbaijaniMusic #AzerbaijaniPeople #Azeri #музыка #симфония #мугам #композитор #Азербайджан #Баку #Гянджа #Шуша #Карабах #классики #гений #genius #Musiqi
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