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Hossein Alizadeh (Template:Langx; born August 24, 1951) is an Iranian musician, composer,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> radif-preserver, researcher, teacher, and tar, shurangiz and setar instrumentalist and improviser.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has performed with such musicians as Shahram Nazeri, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Alireza Eftekhari and Jivan Gasparyan, as well as with a number of orchestras and ensembles.

FilmographyEdit

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  • O Beautiful Istanbul (a.k.a. Ah Güzel Istanbul) - (1966)
  • Karaoglan Camoka's Revenge (a.k.a. Karaoğlan Camoka'nın Intikami) - (1966)
  • A Nation is Awaking (a.k.a. Bir Millet Uyanıyor) - (1966)
  • The Death Field (a.k.a. Ölüm Tarlası) - (1966)
  • Immortal Love (a.k.a. Ölmeyen Aşk) - (1966)
  • Firecrest (a.k.a. Çalıkuşu) - (1966)
  • I Loved a Poor Girl (a.k.a. Fakir Bir Kızı Sevdim) - (1966)
  • Ömer the Tourist in Germany (a.k.a. Turist Ömer Almanya'da) - (1966)
  • Street Girl (a.k.a. Sokak Kızı) - (1966)
  • The Black Rose (a.k.a. Siyah Gül) - (1966)
  • The Sore (a.k.a. Yara) - (1968)
  • Spy Smasher Man of Seven Lives (a.k.a. Casus Kıran Yedi Canlı Adam) - (1970)

Music careerEdit

Alizadeh was born in 1951 in Tehran. His father was from Urmia and his mother from Arak.<ref name="Harris">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As a teenager he attended secondary school at a music conservatory<ref name="Harris" /> until 1975. His music studies continued at the University of Tehran, where his focus was composition and performance.<ref name="Harris" /> He began postgraduate studies at the Tehran University of Art. After the Iranian Revolution, he resumed his studies at the University of Berlin, where he studied composition and musicology.<ref name="Harris"/>

Alizadeh plays the tar and setar. He has performed with two of Iran's national orchestras, as well as with the Aref Ensemble, the Shayda Ensemble,<ref name="Harris"/> and Masters of Persian Music. In Europe, his first professional performance was with the Bejart Ballet Company’s orchestra in a performance of a Maurice Béjart ballet called Golestan.<ref name="Harris"/>

AwardsEdit

He has been nominated for the 2007 Grammy Award along with Armenian musician, Djivan Gasparyan, for their collaboration album, The Endless Vision. In 2008, he was voted as "Iran's most distinguished musician of the year".

On November 28, 2014 he refused to accept France’s high distinction in art, Legion of Honour.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

InventionsEdit

  • Dad o Bidad: A new maqam in Persian music, through combining the gusheh of dad in dastgah of Mahour and the gusheh of bidad in dastgah of Homayoun.
  • Sallaneh and Shoor-Angiz: Two new musical instruments derived from the ancient Persian lute barbat.

WorksEdit

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Alizadeh at a concert in London. From right to left: Alizadeh, Homayoun Shajarian, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and Kayhan Kalhor

Film scoresEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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  • Laudan Nooshin, in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie, second edition (Macmillan, London, 2001). Template:ISBN. (Oxford University Press, 2001). Template:ISBN.

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