Abol Hasan Sabā was a renowned Iranian musician, composer, violin

Violin

The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

ist, and setar

Setar

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 player.

Biography

He was born in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

 to Abul Qasim Khan Kamal ol-Saltaneh, son of Mohammad Jafar Khan Sadr ol-Hekma, son of Mahmud Khan Kashi Malak ol-Shoara Sadr ol-Shoara Saba ol-Shoara, son of Mohammad Hossain Khan Malak ol-Shoara. He studied several of Iranian

Iranian musical instruments

Persian musical instruments can be broadly classified into three categories, namely classical, Western and folk. Most of Persian musical instruments spread in the former Persian Empires states all over the Middle East, Caucasus, Central Asia and Southern Asia...

 and non Iranian musical instruments and became a Ostad in Radif

Musical radif

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, but selected violin and setar as his specific instruments. He was a student of Mirza Abdollah

Mirza Abdollah

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 as well as Darvish Khan.

Saba is considered one of Iran's most influential figures in traditional and instrumental Persian music.

Notable Pupils

Amongst his many students who went on to become great masters of Persian traditional music were Faramarz Payvar

Faramarz Payvar

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, Manoochehr Sadeghi Habibollah Badiei, Rahmatollah Badiyi, Abbas Emadi, Ali Tajvidi

Ali Tajvidi

Ali Tajvidi , was a Persian musician, composer, violinist, songwriter, and music professor at the School of National Music and Tehran University...

, Mahmoud Tajbakhsh, Sassan Sepanta, Parviz Yahaghi

Parviz Yahaghi

Parviz Yahaghi was a distinguished Iranian composer and violinist. He was born in Tehran in 1936 and died in Tehran in 2007....

, Gholam-Hossein Banan and Hossein Tehrani

Hossein Tehrani

Hossein Tehrāni , was an Iranian musician and tonbak player. He is regarded as the father of the modern tonbak.-Early life:...

.

He died in 1957 and was buried in Tehran

Tehran

Tehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...

's Zahir o-dowleh Cemetery of artists and musicians.

External links

• BBC Article on his 50th memorial
• www.setar.info
• Photograph of Abolhasan Saba: http://inlinethumb18.webshots.com/23377/2961186220061594669S600x600Q85.jpg.