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Khananda A khananda ( az, xanəndə ; fa, خواننده; alternative spellings in English: khanende, khanande, khanandeh) is a name generally given to singers of mugham, an Culture of Azerbaijan, Azeri folk music genre. The word is of Persian origin ...

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khananda A khananda ( az, xanəndə ; fa, خواننده; alternative spellings in English: khanende, khanande, khanandeh) is a name generally given to singers of mugham, an Culture of Azerbaijan, Azeri folk music genre. The word is of Persian origin ...

traditional mugham folk singer.

Biography

Mashadi Mammad Farzaliyev was born in 1872 in Shusha, Azerbaijan. He left Shusha as a child, and lived and worked in

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for a while, before moving to

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, Vladikavkaz,

and other cities. Khananda was known throughout the

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and even in many

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countries. Mashadi Mammad performed with Tatevos Arutunyan and Mashadi Zeynal at weddings and folk festivals while he was in Shusha. His first success was at the Eastern Concert in the Shusha Khandamirov Theatre. It was through such mughams as "Bayati-Kurd", " Rast", " Shur", " Chahargah", "Zabul-Segah", "Kurdi-Shahnaz", "

Heyrati “Heyrati” ( az, Heyratı) – is one of the rhythmic mughams of Azerbaijan. It’s performed at a key of “C rast” of “Mahur-hindi” branch. Its time signature is – 4/4. It has a vital and heroic character. Musical performance like an i ...

", "Mansuriyya", "Samai-Shams", " Karabakh Shikastasi" , "Arazbari", "Keremi", and "Afshari" that Mashadi Mammad gained popularity and became known as the master of "

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". Mashadi Mammad Farzaliyev received an invitation in 1912 from Sport-Record, a company operating in

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. He recorded about 40 mughams,

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s and songs, accompanied by Gurban Pirimov and kamancheh player Sasha Oganezashvili in

. An invitation came from

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. The artist recorded mugham and folk songs for the gramophone shaft for the company Ekstrafon. Mashadi Mammad was later invited to

in the spring of 1913. In 1923,

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invited Mashadi Mammad to

to teach mugham at the city's music school. In 1926, Mashadi Mammad Farzaliyev performed in many cities in

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and

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. In 1929, Farzaliyev left for a tour abroad and never returned to

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. He lived in

until his death in 1962.

References

Bibliography

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Farzaliyev, Mashadi Mammad 1872 births 1962 deaths Mugham singers 20th-century Azerbaijani male singers Musicians from Shusha 19th-century Azerbaijani male singers