Khayyam Mirzazade
Background information
Born	(1935-10-05)5 October 1935
Origin	Baku, Azerbaijan
Died	30 July 2018(2018-07-30) (aged 82)
Occupation(s)	Composer

Khayyam Hadi oglu Mirzazade (Azerbaijani: Xəyyam Hadı oğlu Mirzəzadə; 5 October 1935 – 30 July 2018)^[1] was an Azerbaijani composer and professor.^[2][3][4][5]

Biography

Khayyam Mirzazade was born on October 5, 1935, in Baku.^[6] In 1957, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.^[7] From 1957, he taught at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. From 1969 to 1983, he was a manager of composition cathedra at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire.^[8] Khayyam Mirzazade is the author of symphonic and chamber compositions, music to drama spectacles and movies and lyric songs.^[9]

On October 7, 2000, he was awarded with Shohrat Order by the President of Azerbaijan.

Titles and awards

• Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1972)
• People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1987)
• Lenin Komsomol Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR (1970)
• State premiums of Azerbaijan (1976,^[10] 1986)
• “Shohrat” Order (2000)^[11]

Compositions

For chorus, soloist and symphony orchestra:

• “Blossom, our Motherland” cantata (together with E.Mahmudov, lyrics by Z.Jabbarzade, 1964)
• Ode about party (lyrics by B.Vahabzade, 1975)

For symphony orchestra:

• Symphony I (1957)
• Symphony II (Triptych, 1970)
• Little lyric suite (1963)
• Sketches-63 (1963)
• “In Mughan fields” suite (1967)

For chamber orchestra:

• Music (1964)
• 3 choreographic scenes (1969)

For woodwind instruments:

• Sextet (1962)

For string quartet:

• Quartet I (1956)
• Quartet II (1961)
• Four miniatures (1958)
• Norashen dances (1972)

For brass instruments:

• Quartet (1970)

For violin and fortepiano:

• Sonatina (1950)
• A poem and scherzo (1952)

For solo instrument

• Genesis, Sonata for viola solo (1982)

Music to movies

• 1961 – “Our street”
• 1964 – “Summit” (a plot in film-almanach “Whom do we love much”
• 1970 – “My seven sons”
• 1972 – “I grew up at the seaside”
• 1973 – “Along a dangerous marine way” (short-movie)
• 1974 – “Winds blow in Baku”
• 1977 – “A stab in the back”
• 1978 – “Country house for one family”
• 1981 – “The day after tomorrow, at midnight”
• 1985 – “Cottage season”
• 1987 – “Aphrodite’s hands” (short movie)
• 1990 – “Basement”
• 1993 – “My white city”
• 1993 – “Hello from another world”
• 1993-2002 – “Shooting is postponed”

References