Composer Fikret Amirov – creator of “East symphonism”

Abstract

2022 year is prominent Azerbaijani composer Fikret Amirov’s 100^th anniversary. The great person passed away decades ago. However, his works are master pieces that have already gained eternity and they are still sounded, loved and delighted our people particularly, giving them spiritual pleasure despite the passing of years. Fikret Amirov was a composer who gave pearls of art not only to Azerbaijan, but also to the world music culture and laid the foundation of a new genre of music such as “symphonic mugham”. F. Amirov’s work is wide and comprehensive. He wrote valuable works in most genres of music. He was the author of numerous symphonic works, ballets, opera “Sevil”, instrumental and vocal-instrumental works, musical comedies, music for dramas and movies, concerts, scientific and publicist articles and essays. Fikret Amirov was born in 1922 in Ganja – in a talented musician, tar player, oud player, canonist, musicologist, singer, composer, and educator Mashadi Jamil Amirov’s family. Little Fikrat entered the world of music under the sounds of folk melodies, “Shur”, “Rast”, “Segah” and other mugham played and sung by his father and played the tar and understood national music and ancient mughams with the miraculous sound of this instrument like his father. Live communication with the great people of Shusha – U.Hajibeyli, Bulbul, J.Garyagdioglu, S.Shushinsky, G.Pirimov and others also played a leading role in the formation of his creative credo.