List of Azerbaijani composers
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The Azerbaijanis are a Turkic-speaking people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as in the neighbourhood states, Georgia, Russia and formerly Armenia. Commonly referred to as Azeris or Azerbaijani Turks , they also live in a wider area from the Caucasus to...

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  • Vasif Adigozalov
    Vasif Adigozalov
    Vasif Adigozalov was one of Azerbaijan's most distinguished composers.-Career:Vasif Adigozalov excelled both as composer and performer. He majored in Piano as well as Composition at the Azerbaijani Conservatory...

     (1935–2006)
  • Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
    Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
    Franghiz Ali-Zadeh is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist, currently living in Germany. She is best known for her works which combine the musical tradition of the Azerbaijani mugam and 20th century Western compositional techniques, especially those of Arnold Schönberg and Gara Garayev...

     (1947- )
  • Fikret Amirov
    Fikret Amirov
    Fikret Mashadi Jamil oghlu Amirov |Ganja]] - February 20, 1984, Baku) was a prominent Azerbaijani composer of the Soviet period.Fikret Amirov grew up in an atmosphere of Azerbaijani folk music...

     (1922-1984)
  • Rafig Babayev
    Rafig Babayev
    Rafig Farzi oglu Babayev was an Azerbaijani jazz composer and pianist. In 1978 he was conferred the title of Honoured Artist and in 1993 the title of National Artist of Azerbaijan....

     (1937-1994)
  • Afrasiyab Badalbeyli
    Afrasiyab Badalbeyli
    Afrasiyab Badal oglu Badalbeyli was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer, conductor and music critic. The author of music and the libretto of the first Azerbaijani Ballet and the first ballet in the Muslim East Giz Galasi .-Life:Afrasiyab Badalbeyli was born to Shusha natives Badal and Rahima Badalbeyli...

     (1907-1976)
  • Farhad Badalbeyli
    Farhad Badalbeyli
    Farhad Shamsi oglu Badalbeyli is an Azerbaijani pianist and composer.He is the son of Leyla and Shamsi Badalbeyli.Badalbeyli, a People's Artist of the USSR , won in 1968, ex-aequo with Viktoria Postnikova, the 4th edition of Lisbon' Vianna da Motta International Music Competition...

     (1947- )
  • Amina Figarova
    Amina Figarova
    Amina Figarova is a jazz composer and jazz pianist. She currently lives in Rotterdam, Netherlands.-Education:Amina began studying music as a child, beginning learning the piano, and expanding into musical composition and arrangement as she matured...

     (1966- )
  • Gara Garayev
    Gara Garayev
    Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev , also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara [Abulfazovich] Karayev, was a prominent Azerbaijani composer of the Soviet period...

     (1918-1982)
  • Tofig Guliyev
    Tofig Guliyev
    Tofig Alakbar oglu Guliyev – Azerbaijani composer, pianist, conductor, People's Artist of the USSR.-Biography:Tofig Guliyev was born on November 7, 1917, in Baku, in the family of salary worker. He became a student of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire when he was 12 years old due to his musical...

     (1917-2000)
  • Soltan Hajibeyov
    Soltan Hajibeyov
    Soltan Ismayil ogli Hajibeyov, was an Azerbaijani composer and People's Artist of the USSR.Soltan Hajibeyov was Uzeyir Hajibeyov's cousin. Soltan was a composer who contributed greatly to the formation of national symphonic music of Azerbaijan...

     (1919-1974)
  • Uzeyir Hajibeyov
    Uzeyir Hajibeyov
    Uzeyir bey Abdul Hussein oglu Hajibeyov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer, conductor, publicist, playwright, teacher, translator, and social figure from Azerbaijan. He is recognized as the father of Azerbaijani classical music and opera...

     (1885-1948)
  • Zulfugar Hajibeyov
    Zulfugar Hajibeyov
    Zulfugar Hajibeyov was an Azerbaijani composer and a member of a family noted for its musical talents. He was one of the founders of the Azerbaijan Music Comedy Theater.-Biography:Hajibeyov was born in Shusha on 17 April 1884....

     (1884-1950)
  • Ismayil Hajiyev
    Ismayil Hajiyev
    Ismayil Ahmad Jovdat oglu Hajiyev is an Azerbaijani-Canadian conductor and composer. He is the son of Azerbaijani composer Jovdat Hajiyev and folk dancer Amina Dilbazi....

     (1949- )
  • Jovdat Hajiyev
    Jovdat Hajiyev
    Ahmad Jovdat Ismayil oglu Hajiyev was one of the major Azerbaijani composers of the Soviet period. He is remembered for his monumental orchestral works, having been the first Azerbaijani to compose a symphony...

     (1917-2002)
  • Kamaladdin Heydarov (1961- )
  • André Hossein (1905-1983)
  • Haji Khanmammadov
    Haji Khanmammadov
    Haji Dadash oglu Khanmammadov was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer. He is best known for writing the first concertos for the Azeri stringed folk instruments tar and kamancheh.-Early life:...

     (1918-2005)
  • Ella Leya
    Ella Leya
    Ella Leya is an Azerbaijani-American composer, singer, and writer born in Baku, Azerbaijan. Her American CD releases include "Queen of Night," "Russian Romance" and "Secret Lives of Women."...

  • Muslim Magomayev (1885-1937)
  • Arif Malikov
    Arif Malikov
    Arif Malikov is an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer. He graduated from the Baku Conservatory as a music composer in 1958. He shot to fame in 1961 when his first major composition "Legend of Love" was staged at the Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad and received...

     (1933- )
  • Eldar Mansurov
    Eldar Mansurov
    Eldar Bahram oglu Mansurov is an Azerbaijani musician, composer and songwriter.He is the son of musician Bahram Mansurov...

     (1952- )
  • Aziza Mustafazadeh
    Aziza Mustafazadeh
    Aziza Mustafa Zadeh also known as The Princess of Jazz, or Die Prinzessin des Jazz or as Jazziza is an Azerbaijani singer, pianist and composer who plays a fusion of jazz and mugam with classical and Avant-garde influences...

     (1969- )
  • Vagif Mustafazadeh
    Vagif Mustafazadeh
    Vagif Mustafazadeh , also known as Vagif Mustafa Zadeh, was an Azerbaijani jazz pianist and composer, acclaimed for fusing jazz and traditional Azerbaijani folk music known as mugham...

     (1940-1979)
  • Niyazi
    Niyazi
    Niyazi Zulfigar oglu Tagizade Hajibeyov was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani musical conductor, composer, author of the famous "Rast" symphonic mugam.-Early life:...

     (1912-1984)
  • Said Rustamov
    Said Rustamov
    Said Rustamov , born Mir-Jabbar Ali oglu Seyid-Rustamzadeh , was an Azerbaijani composer and conductor.-Life and contributions:...

     (1907-1983)
  • Huseyngulu Sarabski
    Huseyngulu Sarabski
    Huseyngulu Sarabski , born Huseyngulu Malik oglu Rzayev , was an Azerbaijani opera singer , composer, playwright, stage actor, theatre director, and musician .-Early life:...

     (1879-1945)
  • Asaf Zeynally
    Asaf Zeynally
    Asaf Zeynalabdin oglu Zeynally , also spelled Zeynalli , was an Azerbaijani composer.-Early life:...

    (1909-1932)
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