Composer
(22.05.1937 – 03.05.2014)

Agshin Alizade, son of Aligulu, was born in Baku. He studied at the special music school named after Bulbul (1955), Azerbaijan State Conservatory (composition class of  Jovdat Hajiyev, 1962). He started his career as a teacher at the Azerbaijan State  Conservatory and worked in the department of composition (1963-1972). He held the positions of the Secretary of the Board of the Azerbaijan Composers’ Union (1979-1985), the first secretary of the Azerbaijan Composers’ Union (1985-1990). He was the artistic guiding of the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic (1991-1994). In 2007, he was elected the secretary of the Board of  Directors of the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan and worked in that position until 2012. The sonata he wrote while a student was awarded the 1st degree diploma at the “First All-Union Competition of Young Composers” (1962), and the first symphony he wrote later was awarded the 1st diploma at the “Transcaucasia Spring” festival. Main works: “Babek” ballet (1979), “Natevan” ballet, “Journey to the Caucasus” ballet (2002), “Hope Waltz” ballet (2008), 5 symphonies, concerto for violin and orchestra, poem for cello and orchestra, chorus for “Bayatilar”, “Children’s suite”, “Pastoral”, “Ashighsayagi”, “Cangi”, “Village suite”, “Epic”, “Shirvan plates”, “Humoreska” (for children’s choir), for violin and piano ” Portrait”, “Epic” for piano, “Old games” for piano, “Dialogue” for violin and organ, choreographic symphony, etc. He wrote music for more than 40 films and plays. He was awarded the Order of Glory (1997) and the Order of Honor (2012). People’s artist (1987), State prize laureate (1978), professor (1988) Aghshin Alizade died in 2014 and was buried in Alley of Honor.

Composer Agshin Alizade is  composer Ali Alizade’s  father.

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FILMOGRAPHY:

1. Spartakiad of the peoples of the SSR (1966, short documentary television film) – screenwriter
2. This is Sattar Bahlulzade (1969, short documentary television film) – composer
3. Enthusiasm of searching (1970, short documentary television film) – composer
4. Sedition (1970, animation film) – composer
5. Iron tree (1971, short documentary television film) – composer
6. Worker Gulbala Aliyev (1971, short documentary film) – composer
7. Patriarchs of the land (1971, short documentary television film) – composer
8. The fox goes on a pilgrimage (1971, animation film) – composer
9. Jackal son of jackal (1972, animation film) – composer
10. Inspiration (1972, animation film) – composer
11. Flamingo (1972, full length feature film) – composer
12. In contact with fire (1972, short documentary film) – composer
13. Why is the cloud crying? (1973, animation film) – composer
14. Beautiful Fatma (1973, animation film) – composer
15. Djeyranchol (1974, short documentary film) – composer
16. Pages of life (II) – Rivals (1974, full length feature film, kinoalmanac) – composer
17. Baku Commissioner Mashadi Azizbeyov (1975, short documentary film) – composer
18. It’s good that there is Samad Vurgun in the world (1976, short documentary film) – composer
19. Pipe sound (1976, full length feature film) – composer
20. Poetry of the stone (1977, short documentary television film) – his compositions were used
21. Face to the wind (1977, full length feature film) – composer
22. Toral and Zeri (1979, animation film) – composer
23. Wait for me (1980, full length feature film) – composer
24. You can’t just take the island with you (1980, full length feature film) – composer
25. Memory of the heart (1981, short documentary film) – composer
26. The last night of last year (II) (1983, full length feature film) – composer
27. When august comes (1984, full length feature film) – composer
28. I loved you like the world (1985, full length feature film) – composer
29. 40 degrees in the shade (1987, full length feature film) – composer
30. Pirverdi’s cock (1987, short feature film) – composer
31. Pain (1989, short documentary film) – composer
32. Cross (1989, short documentary film) – composer
33. Absheron plates (1990, short documentary film) – composer
34. Mourning (1990, short documentary film) – composer
35. Nickname “İka” (1997, full length feature film) – composer
36. Deportation (2001, documentary series) – his compositions were used
37. Embracing fire (2002, short feature film) – composer
38. Akram Aylisli. Longing for light (2003, short documentary television film) – his compositions were used
39. Gulgand (2004, short documentary television film) – his compositions were used
40. Forgotten hero (2005, short documentary film) – his compositions were used
41. The Caucasus (2006, full length feature film) – his compositions were used
42. In the place of garden (2007, short documentary television film) – his compositions were used
43. Prisoners (2007, full length feature film) – composer
44. Ura of life (2007, short documentary television film) – his compositions were used
45. His nickname is “Mikhaylo” (2008, short documentary film) – music developer
46. The queen of Azerbaijani painting (2009, short documentary film) – his compositions were used
47. Azerbaijani carpets (III) (2013, documentary series) – his compositions were used
48. A loyal lover (2014, short documentary film) – his compositions were used
49. Baku in the mirror of centuries (2016, full length documentary film) – his compositions were used