Baba Salahov
Baba Salahov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | February 5, 1923 Baku, Baku Uyezd, Azerbaijan SSR, TSFSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | August 12, 1981 (aged 58) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | tar player | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Instruments | tar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1940–1981 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Baba Aliheydar oghlu Salahov (Azerbaijani: Baba Əliheydər oğlu Salahov, February 5, 1923 — August 12, 1981) was an Azerbaijani tar player, Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Biography
Baba Salahov was born on February 5, 1923 in Baku. He learned to play tar from Ahmad Bakikhanov. From 1940 until his death, he was a concertmaster of the Azerbaijan Folk Instruments Orchestra named after Said Rustamov. In 1965, he founded the Orchestra of Folk Instruments of the Azerbaijan Television and Radio and was its art director until the end of his life.[1] Here, he accompanied Hajibaba Huseynov, Rubaba Muradova, Shovkat Alakbarova, Sara Gadimova, Abulfat Aliyev, Yagub Mammadov, Zeynab Khanlarova, Aghakhan Abdullayev, Sakina Ismayilova, Alim Gasimov and other famous singers on the tar.
Baba Salahov died on August 12, 1981 in Baku.
Memorial
The ensemble, led by Baba Salahov, has been called "Araz" since 1981. The ensemble has been named after Baba Salahov since 1992. His recordings are kept in the fund of AzTV.[2]
Awards
- Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR — 1964
References
- ↑ "Salahov Baba Əliheydər oğlu" (in azərbaycanca). Muğam Ensiklopediyası. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ↑ Энциклопедия Азербайджанского Мугама. Баку: Шарг-Гарб. 2012. p. 204. Search this book on
Category:1923 births
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Category:Azerbaijani musicians
