Hossein Alizadeh

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Hossein Alīzādeh in Milan (2010)
Alizadeh in a concert in London

Hossein Alizadeh ( listen ? / I ; PersianAudio file / audio sample حسین علیزاده, DMG Ḥoseyn-e ʿAlīzāde ; * 1951 in Tehran ) is considered one of the most respected Iranian composers , Radif keepers, researchers and teachers as well as an excellent tar and setar player. He is referred to by many as the Ostad (master) of Persian music . Critics consider him to be one of the most influential artists of his generation.

He made many recordings with famous artists such as Mohammad-Resa Shajarian , Nazeri , Khalaj and Gasparjan .

Life

Alizadeh graduated from the Conservatory in 1975 and began studying Composition and Persian Music at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran . He later continued his education in composition and musicology at what was then the Berlin University of the Arts . He studied with various masters of traditional Persian music, such as Houshang Zarif, Ali Akbar Shahnazi , Nur-Ali Borumand , Mahmoud Karimi , Abdollah Davami , Yusef Forutan and Sa'id Hormozi . From them he learned the radif of Persian music.

He plays Tar and Setar and has the Sallāneh and sur-Angiz from the ancient Persian lute Barbat reconstructed.

His son Saba Alizadeh, who was born in Tehran in 1983, is also a musician and combines traditional Persian with contemporary electronic music.

Alizadeh's students include the Tar and Setar virtuoso Sahba Motallebi (* 1977), who lives in California.

Awards

In 2007 he was nominated for a Grammy Award together with the Armenian musician Djivan Gasparyan for their album The Endless Vision . In 2008 he was voted the most outstanding musician of the year.

Inventions

  • Sallāneh and Šūr-Angīz : Two new musical instruments derived from the ancient Persian lute barbat .
  • Dād-o Bidād : A small maqām ( Āwāz ) in Persian music, which was created by combining the gushehs “Dād” from the Dastgāh Māhūr and “Bidād” from the Dastgāh Homāyūn.

Fonts (selection)

  • Setâr Teaching Methodology. An elementary course. (دستور سه تار), Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, (1998) 8th edition. Tehran 2007, ISBN 964-6409-33-4 .
  • Târ & Setâr Teaching Method. An intermediate course. (دستور تار و سه تار), Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, 2nd edition. Tehran 2003, ISBN 964-6409-70-9 .

Discography (selection)

Film music

literature

  • Laudan Nooshin, in: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2nd Edition. Macmillan, London 2001, ISBN 1-56159-239-0 . Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-517067-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This notation is used in his musical and literary publications in an international context.
  2. ↑ همشهری آنلاین ( Memento from September 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on hamshahrionline.ir
  3. ^ Biography of Saba Alizadeh. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Sahba Motallebi: Niayesh. Ketab Corp., Los Angeles 2005, ISBN 1-59584-061-3 , publisher information .
personal data
SURNAME Alizadeh, Hossein
ALTERNATIVE NAMES حسین علیزاده; Alīzādeh, Hossein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian musician, composer, music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran