photo courtesy of Heydar Aliyev Foundation Uzeyir Hajibeyov is considered the father of Azerbajiani classical and operatic music and composed the first operetta ever produced in the Muslim world. Hajibeyov, who was born in 1885, lived through a turbulent time in the history of this nation in the Caucasus region, at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. After Hajibeyov was born, Azerbajian was ruled for over a hundred years first by the Ottomans, then by the Russian Czar and finally ...
photo courtesy of Heydar Aliyev Foundation Uzeyir Hajibeyov is considered the father of Azerbajiani classical and operatic music and composed the first operetta ever produced in the Muslim world. Hajibeyov, who was born in 1885, lived through a turbulent time in the history of this nation in the Caucasus region, at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. After Hajibeyov was born, Azerbajian was ruled for over a hundred years first by the Ottomans, then by the Russian Czar and finally ...
Share this Article
Recommended