Khayyam Mirzazade

Khayyam Hadi oglu Mirzazade was an Azerbaijani composer and professor.

Biography

Khayyam Mirzazade was born on October 5, 1935, in Baku. In 1957, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Conservatoire and from 1957, he taught at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. From 1969 to 1983, he was the manager of composition cathedra at Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. Khayyam Mirzazade is the author of symphonic and chamber compositions, music to drama spectacles and movies and lyric songs.
On October 7, 2000, he was awarded with Shohrat Order by the President of Azerbaijan.

Titles and awards

Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR
People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR
Lenin Komsomol Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR
State premiums of Azerbaijan
“Shohrat” Order

Compositions

For chorus, soloist and symphony orchestra:

“Blossom, our Motherland” cantata
Ode about party

For symphony orchestra:

Symphony I
Symphony II
Little lyric suite
Sketches-63
“In Mughan fields” suite

For chamber orchestra:

Music
3 choreographic scenes

For woodwind instruments:

Sextet

For string quartet:

Quartet I
Quartet II
Four miniatures
Norashen dances

For brass instruments:

Quartet

For violin and fortepiano:

Sonatina
A poem and scherzo

For solo instrumentGenesis, Sonata for viola solo

Music to movies

1961 – “Our street”
1964 – “Summit”
1974 – “Winds blow in Baku”
1977 – “A stab in the back”
1978 – “Country house for one family”
1981 – “The day after tomorrow, at midnight”
1985 – “Cottage season”
1987 – “Aphrodite’s hands”
1990 – “Basement”
1993 – “My white city”
1993 – “Hello from another world”
1993-2002 – “Shooting is postponed”