Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
Azerbaijani composer
Franghiz Ali Aga Kïzï Ali-Zadeh (born 28 May 1947) is an Azerbaijani composer and pianist of contemporary classical music. Since 2007, she has been chairperson of the Composers Union of Azerbaijan.
Her music synthesizes Western classical modernist techniques with the Azerbaijani mugham art music. Among her better known works are the chamber piece Gabil Sajahy (1979) for cello and piano, as well as the ballet Empty Cradle (1993); she has also written instrumental, vocal and film music.
Life and career
Early life and education
Franghiz Ali Aga Kïzï Ali-Zadeh was born on 28 May 1947 in Baku, then in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR. Although her family was not particularly musical, her father—an oil engineer—occasionally played the tar, a traditional string instrument of Central Asia. Early in her childhood, Ali-Zadeh developed an interest in music and at age five her family bought a piano. She began composition a few years later, studying the discipline under Adila Huseinzade.
From 1954 to 1965 Ali-Zadeh attended Azerbaijan State Conservatory's youth music school; later she studied composition at the conservatory under Gara Garayev (graduated 1972) and piano under Ulfan Khalilov (graduated 1970). At the conservatory, she became an assistant to Karayev (1970–76) and was later in postgraduate track with him (1974–76). She was awarded the Composers Union of Azerbaijan award in 1980.
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