Rashid Behbudov was a Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and actor. He has been referred to as the "golden voice of Azerbaijan". He performed his songs in multiple languages.
Uzeyir bey Abdulhuseyn bey oghlu Hajibeyov, known as Uzeyir Hajibeyov, was an Azerbaijani composer, conductor, publicist, playwright, and social figure. He is recognized as the father of Azerbaijani composed classical music and opera. Uzeyir Hajibeyov composed the music of the national anthem of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic. He also composed the anthem used by Azerbaijan during the Soviet period. He was the first composer of an opera in the Islamic world. He composed the first oriental opera Leyli and Majnun in 1908 and since then he is revered for adapting the written masterpiece to the theatre.
Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev, also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.
Aghjabadi is a city in and the capital of the Aghjabadi District of Azerbaijan. It is situated in central Azerbaijan.
Bulbul was a famous Azerbaijani and Soviet opera tenor, folk music performer, and one of the founders of vocal arts and national musical theatre in Azerbaijan.
Niyazi Zulfugar oghlu Taghizade Hajibeyov was a Soviet and Azerbaijani conductor and composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1959) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1982).
Soltan Ismayil oghlu Hajibeyov was a Soviet Azerbaijani composer. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR
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 (1936). He studied under Azerbaijan's Founder of Composed Music, Uzeyir Hajibeyov and under Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Zulfugar Abdulhuseyn oghlu 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.
Leyli and Majnun is an opera in four acts by Uzeyir Hajibeyov, to an Azerbaijani libretto written by the composer and his brother Jeyhun Hajibeyov. The opera was first performed in Baku in 1908.
The Uzeyir Hajibeyov International Music Festival is held in September, since 2009, in Azerbaijan. Musical events are held in several cities of Azerbaijan, and the main ceremonies take place in Baku.
Husband and Wife is a musical comedy in three acts with music and libretto written by Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov, and an early example of the genre in Azerbaijan. It is the first of Hajibeyov's trilogy of three musical comedies, which also includes If Not That One, Then This One and Arshin mal alan.
National Music Day in Azerbaijan is a holiday annually celebrated on 18 September on the birthday of the founder of the modern professional musical art of Azerbaijan, Uzeyir Hajibeyov. It is a working day.
Sovetsky is a historic district in Mirzaagha Aliyev Street, Baku, Azerbaijan. It is located in Yasamal raion, between Nariman Narimanov Avenue and Mirza Ibrahimov Street, and between Nizami and Ibrahim Abilov streets. There are many historical buildings over a century old, museums, mosques, baths and houses of notable Azerbaijanis.
The House-Museum of Samad Vurgun in Azerbaijan commemorates the poet, scientist, and public figure Samad Vurgun (1906–1956), twice the State Prize Laureate Samad Vurgun's house museum is the first memorial museum created to perpetuate the memory of writers and composers in Azerbaijan. It is under the control of Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
House-Museum of Uzeyir Hajibeyov is the museum located in Shusha of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, an Azerbaijani composer, musicologist, publicist, playwright, teacher and public figure, founder of the professional musical art of the modern Azerbaijan and of the national opera.
The house-museum of Niyazi is a memorial museum dedicated to the Azerbaijani conductor and composer, People's Artist of the USSR, Niyazi. It is located in the capital of Azerbaijan, the city of Baku, Bulbul avenue. The museum is a branch of the Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture.
Ganja State Philharmonic Hall is a concert hall in Ganja, Azerbaijan. Ganja State Philharmonic is named after the composer Fikret Amirov who was born in Ganja in 1922 and directed the Philharmonic for a while (1942-1943).
The Composers Union of Azerbaijan is a non-governmental organization that unites and officially represents professional composers and musicologists in Azerbaijan. The union was established in 1934.
Statue of Uzeyir Hajibeyov is a monument erected in 1985 to Uzeyir Hajibeyov, an Azerbaijani composer, musicologist-scientist, publicist, dramatist, pedagogue and public figure, founder of modern Azerbaijani professional music art and national opera, composer of the national anthem of the Republic of Azerbaijan, author of the first opera in the Muslim East, in his hometown of Shusha. The statue became a victim of vandalism after the city of Shusha came under Armenian control. After the liberation of the city, it was restored in 2021, and its official opening took place on August 29.
