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Uzeyir Hajibeyov
1885 – 1948 · aged 63
Azerbaijani composer (1885–1948)
- Born
- 18 Sept 1885 · Aghjabadi
- Died
- 23 Nov 1948 · Baku
Life timeline
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- 18 Sept 1885BornBorn in Aghjabadi
- 1936AwardHonored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR
- 1937AwardPeople's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR
- 1938AwardOrder of Lenin
- 1938AwardPeople's Artist of the USSR
- 1941AwardStalin Prize, 2nd degree
- 1944AwardMedal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
- 1945AwardMedal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- 1945AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour
- 1946AwardStalin Prize, 2nd degree
- 23 Nov 1948DiedDied in Baku
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1885 – 1948).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
Biography
Uzeyir bey Abdulhuseyn bey oghlu Hajibeyov (18 September 1885 – 23 November 1948) was an Azerbaijani composer, musicologist, and teacher. He is recognized as the father of Azerbaijani classical music. He composed the music of the national anthem of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (which was re-adopted after Azerbaijan regained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991). Hajibeyov also composed the anthem used by Azerbaijan during the Soviet period. He was the first composer of an opera in the Islamic world. He composed the first oriental opera Leyli and Majnun in 1908 and since then he is revered for adapting the written masterpiece to the theatre.
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