Ali Tajvidi (; November 7, 1919 – March 15, 2006) was an Iranian

musician A musician is someone who Composer, composes, Conducting, conducts, or Performing arts#Performers, performs music. According to the United States Employment Service, "musician" is a general Terminology, term used to designate a person who fol ...

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

ist,

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, and music professor at the School of National Music and

Tehran University The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

. He composed more than 150 songs and discovered and produced for many Persian performers such as Delkash and Hayedeh. He was born in

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, where his father was active as a painter in the style of

Kamal-ol-Molk Mohammad Ghaffari (; September 29, 1848 — August 18, 1940), better known as Kamal-ol-Molk (), was an Iranian painter and part of the Ghaffari family in Kashan, Qajar Iran. Biography Mohammad Ghaffari, better known as Kamal-ol-Molk, born in K ...

. In his youth he took violin lessons for two years under Hossein Yahaghi (uncle of

Parviz Yahaghi Parviz Yahaghi (; September 23, 1935 – February 2, 2007) was a distinguished Iranian composer and violinist. He resided in Tehran for practically his whole life, and was born and died there. Biography His birth name was Parviz Sedighi Parsi. ...

) and for many years was under the tutelage of Abol-Hassan Saba for the violin as well.See biography of Ali Tajvidi at the Rouhollah Khaleghi Artistic Center
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/ref> also took Harmony lessons under Houshang Ostovar. After 1941, having developed his violin technique considerably, Tajvidi performed regularly as a violin soloist in Radio Iran programs. In later years, he conducted two orchestras, for which he wrote numerous compositions. Asheqi Sheyda, Be Yad-e Saba, Atash-e Karevan, Didi ke Rosva Shod Delam, and Sang-e Khara are among his best known works. He wrote a three-volume book, entitled "Persian Music", which has been released by the Soroush Publishing Company. In 1978 the Iranian government acknowledged his musical accomplishments by awarding him the highest artistic medal that they dispense. During his career Tajvidi cooperated with outstanding contemporary artists including Delkash, Gholamhossein Banan, Hossein Qavami, Mahmoud Mahmoudi-Khansari, Akbar Golpaygani, Hossein Khajeh Amiri (a.k.a. Iraj), Jalil Shahnaz, Farhang Sharif, Habibollah Badiei,

Javad Maroufi Javād Ma'roufi (), (1912 in Tehran – December 7, 1993, in Tehran) was an Iranian composer and pianist. Biography Javād Ma'roufi was born in Tehran to the musician father Musā Ma'roufi and mother Ozrā Ma'roufi (or ''Ezra'' Ma'roufi) who w ...

, Faramarz Payvar, Mehdi Khaledi, Homayoun Khorram. Homeira, a noted singer, first became famous by the song (sabram ata kon) which was composed by Ali Tajvidi. Tajvidi also composed some songs that he played solo on the violin. He is regarded as one of the best violinists in Iran, on a par with

. He also played the

Setar A setar (, ) (lit: "Three String (music), Strings") is a stringed instrument, a type of lute used in Persian traditional music, played solo or accompanying voice. It is a member of the tanbur family of long-necked lutes with a range of more than ...

. He made

Radif In Persian poetry, Persian, Turkic, and Urdu poetry, Urdu ghazals, the ''radīf'' (from Arabic ; ; ; ; ; ) is the word which must end each line of the first couplet and the second line of all the following couplets. It is preceded by a ''qafiya'' ...

which concerns the traditional music of Iran: maghami or dhastgahi for the violin.

Famous Album

Yade ostad with Alireza Eftekhari

References

External links

Ali Tajvidi Biography On BBC Persian
* Photograph of the graveside of Ali Tajvidi in ''

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'', Tehran
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