Fikret Amirov

Fikret Meshedi Jamil oglu Amirov (November 22nd 1922, Ganja - February 20th 1984, Bakou) was an important type-setter Azerbaïdjan board. The music which it composed was perhaps more heard apart from its country that of any other Azeri type-setter.

His/her father, Meshedi Jamil Amirov, were famous a khanande (singer of Mugham) originating in Shusha, which composed and played of the tar.

During its childhood and its adolescence, Fikret starts to compose of the parts for piano. After being graduate faculty of music of Ganja, Fikret enters to the academy of state to Bakou and studies under the direction of Boris Zeidman and Uzeyir Hajibeyov.

When the second world war in 1941 bursts, Amirov, which was only 19 years old, is mobilized, and its studies with the academy its tinterrompues. Amirov was wounded beside hospitalized Voronezh then. It was demobilized and is turned over to Bakou to continue its studies with the academy.

The music of Amirov is strongly influenced by the traditional melodies Azeri. It created a new kind called the symphonic Mugham. Its Mugham S symphonic was based on traditional folk works and was played by famous symphony orchestras in the whole world, as the symphony orchestra of Boston, directed by Leopold Stokowski.

External bonds

Amirov on International Azerbaijan

List of works of Amirov on the page of Soviet type-setters of Onno van Rijen

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