Gara Garayev

Azerbaijani composer

Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev (February 5, 1918 – May 13, 1982) was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in the Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.

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Works

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Don Quixote
Leili and Majnun
Seven Beauties
Symphony No. 3
The Path of Thunder

Box sets & recent recordings

Gara Garayev: Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Minor — Qara Qarayev, Mushfig Guliyev, Tahmina Abdullayeva (2021) Spotify

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