Azerbaijani musician (1927–2015)
Musical artist
Habil Aliyev (Azerbaijani : Habil Mustafa oğlu Əliyev ; 28 May 1927 – 8 September 2015) was a prominent Azerbaijani kamancheh player.[ 1] [ 2] His music is widely appreciated in the Middle East and Europe .[ 3]
Musical career
Habil Aliyev's first international performance was in United Kingdom when he was accompanying Rashid Behbudov and Tamara Sinyavskaya . This performances created great resonance and British press quoting Major of Glasgow called Aliyev "Paganini of Azerbaijan".[ 4] He inspired Israeli musician Mark Eliyahu to play kamancheh.[ 5]
In 2009, suffering from poor health, he made a symbolic "last concert" at Tehran Roudaki-Wahdat concert hall.[ 6]
He died in 2015 at the age of 88.[ 7]
Influence and legacy
In 2014, child music school in Agdash named after him.[ 8]
References
^ Habil Aliyev's Biography , Last.fm, retrieved 20 March 2009
^ Habil Aliyev , Iranmehr, archived from the original on 8 May 2006, retrieved 20 March 2009
^ Habil Aliyev , personal website, archived from the original on 26 December 2008, retrieved 20 March 2009
^ Юбилейный вечер "азербайджанского Паганини" . echo.az (in Russian). Retrieved 11 August 2014 .
^ Bernhaimer, Kathryn (21 February 2014). "Music Stars in Film Fest's Israeli Drama" . boulderjewishnews.org . Retrieved 11 August 2014 .
^ "هابیل علیاف با کمانچه خداحافظی میکند (Habil Alyev says goodbye to Kamancheh)" (in Persian). Archived from the original on 5 March 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2015 .
^ Habil Əliyev dünyasını dəyişdi Archived 2015-09-10 at the Wayback Machine . xeber.az, 8 September 2015. (in Azerbaijani)
^ "A child music school named after Habil Aliyev" . www.heydar-aliyev-foundation.org . Retrieved 11 August 2014 .
International National Artists