Biography of Fikret Amirow (1922-1984)

Born in Gjandsha son to a folk singer and tar musician (asian lute)

Learns Tar and composition at the music professional school in Kirowabad

Preliminary class at the Baku conservatory

Studies of composition and folk music at the Baku conservatory. In the same year head of the philharmony and the music professional school in Kirowabad.

Artistic head of Aserbaidschan Philharmonic

National price of the USSR

Head of the theatre for opera and ballett in Baku

Lenin decoration

National price of Aserbaidschan

National price of USSR and member of the academy of sciences of Aserbaidschan

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