Tahir Salahov
The painter of the “severe style”: oil workers, the Caspian, portraits — hard colour, exact composition.
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The Baku baritone who became the voice of several generations — from opera to pop.
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Muslim Magomayev was born in Baku and won his first great fame in the 1960s. His repertoire ran from operatic arias to pop songs, and he was equally convincing in both.
He was the grandson of the composer Muslim Magomayev, who wrote the opera Shah Ismail. Baku has a street and a monument in his name.
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A composer grandfather and a musical line
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The painter of the “severe style”: oil workers, the Caspian, portraits — hard colour, exact composition.
The tenor the whole USSR knew after Arshin Mal Alan, and founder of the Song Theatre.
Composer of the first opera in the Muslim East and founder of Azerbaijani classical music.