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Habil Aliyev (; 28 May 1927 – 8 September 2015) was a prominent Azerbaijani
kamancheh The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) (, , , ) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument. Th ...
player. His music is widely appreciated in the
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Musical career

Habil Aliyev's first international performance was in
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when he was accompanying Rashid Behbudov and Tamara Sinyavskaya. This performances created great resonance and British press quoting Major of Glasgow called Aliyev "Paganini of Azerbaijan". He inspired Israeli musician Mark Eliyahu to play kamancheh. In 2009, suffering from poor health, he made a symbolic "last concert" at Tehran Roudaki-Wahdat concert hall. He died in 2015 at the age of 88.


Influence and legacy

In 2014, child music school in Agdash named after him.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aliyev, Habil 1927 births 2015 deaths 20th-century songwriters Recipients of the Istiglal Order People from Agdash District Mugham musicians 20th-century Azerbaijani musicians Azerbaijani kamancheh players