Habil Aliyev ( az, Habil Mustafa oğlu Əliyev; 28 May 1927 – 8 September 2015) was a prominent Azerbaijani

kamancheh The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) ( fa, کمانچه, az, kamança, hy, Քամանչա, ku, کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and ...

player. His music is widely appreciated in the

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and

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Musical career

Habil Aliyev's first international performance was in

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when he was accompanying

Rashid Behbudov Rashid Behbudov ( az, Rəşid Məcid oğlu Behbudov, Azerbaijani Cyrillic: Рашид Бейбутов; 14 December 1915 – 9 June 1989) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani singer and actor. Rashid Behbudov was born in Tbilisi in 1915. His father, ...

and

Tamara Sinyavskaya Tamara Ilyinichna Sinyavskaya (russian: Тамара Ильинична Синявская; born 6 July 1943, in Moscow) is a Russian mezzo-soprano from the Bolshoi Theatre. She was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1982. I ...

. This performances created great resonance and British press quoting Major of Glasgow called Aliyev "Paganini of Azerbaijan". He inspired Israeli musician

Mark Eliyahu Mark Eliyahu ( he, מארק אליהו; born 13 July 1982) is an Israeli musician. He plays the kamancheh. Early life Eliyahu was born in 1982 in Soviet Dagestan and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1989. At age 16, he was inspired by ...

to play kamancheh. In 2009, suffering from poor health, he made a symbolic "last concert" at Tehran Roudaki-Wahdat concert hall.

Influence and legacy

In 2014, child music school in Agdash named after him. He died in 2015 at the age of 88.Habil Əliyev dünyasını dəyişdi
. xeber.az, 8 September 2015.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aliyev, Habil 1927 births 2015 deaths Deaths in Azerbaijan Recipients of the Istiglal Order People from Agdash District Azerbaijani musicians Mugham musicians 20th-century Azerbaijani musicians