Uzeyir Hajibeyli: The "father" of Azerbaijani classical music

It's not possible to think about Azerbaijani tradition with out the identify of 1 the best composers of the twentieth century, and the founding father of Azerbaijani classical music, Uzeyir Hajibeyli.

His immortal works have without end glorified his native metropolis of Shusha, since he was the primary composer who merged mugham, a novel fashion of Azerbaijani music, with components of classical opera, and transferred people singing to an orchestral rating. He's additionally the creator of the primary opera of the East “Leyli and Majnun”.

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In 1921 Uzeyir Hajibeyli created a Music Academy, invited well-known professors, and a full vary of classical music was taught within the conservatory.

This was the primary classical conservatory of the East.”

Farhad Badalbeyli

Rector of the Baku Academy of Music

The affect of Uzeyir Hajibeyli on the additional growth of musical artwork in Azerbaijan is tough to overestimate. His progressive and, at instances, revolutionary choices for that point modified the notion of operatic efficiency.

College students performing chamber music underneath the watchful eye of the Rector of the Baku Academy of MusicEuronews

"Uzeyir Hajibeyli’s favourite composer was Mozart. He adored him and even composed a fantasy impressed by Mozart’s C main sonata. He wrote a fantasy for the orchestra of Azerbaijani ethnic devices. " Explains Farhad Badalbeyli, the Rector of the Baku Academy of Music.

Satirical and romantic, glorifying love for the Motherland and freedom, Hajibeyli's works have turn out to be uncommon jewels within the assortment of world classical music.

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On this piece, Uzeyir Hajibeyli expressed an Azerbaijani mugham referred to as “Arazbari” in a classical chamber method.

Orhan Huseynov

Cello pupil on the Baku Academy of Music

There's a piece of music referred to as "With out you” or “Sensiz” in Azerbaijani, and it was impressed by the poems of Nizami, and devoted to his 800th anniversary 

"Whenever you hearken to the piece you clearly hear the sturdy affect of mugham." Explains Joshgun Gadashov, a piano pupil on the Baku Academy of Music.

In some ways, it is thanks to those works that the world first realized in regards to the existence of the mugham, which is at this time on the Intangible Cultural Heritage Record of UNESCO.