Hossein Dehlavi ( fa, حسین دهلوی) (September 30, 1927 – October 15, 2019) was an

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Biography

Hossein Dehlavi was born in 1927 in

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and started music with his father Moezeddin Emami who was a pupil of master Ali-Akbar Shahnazi. Dehlavi studied composition at the Tehran Conservatory of Music with Hossein Nassehi and Heimo Tauber. He studied Persian music with

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and, from 1957 to 1967, was the principal conductor of the Persian Fine Arts Administration Orchestra, also known as Saba Orchestra. Dehlavi started to teach at the Persian National Music Conservatory in Tehran since 1957 and from 1961 until 1950 was the director of this conservatory. The conductor

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was one of his pupils. In 1992, with the cooperation of nearly 70 players of Persian instruments, Dehlavi established the Plectrum Orchestra in Tehran. His works included several pieces for Persian instruments and orchestra, voice and orchestra, choir and orchestra, and two operas and a ballet. As his contribution to the Year of the Child (1979), he wrote an opera for children called '' Mana and Mani''. His wife Susan Aslani and his son

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are also famous musicians.

Selected Compositions

Chamber Works * Duo for Santur, 1953 * Plectrum Quartet (''Chahar-Navazi-e Mezrabi''), 1964 Orchestral Works * ''Sabolkbal'' (Breezy), 1953 * Shushtari, for violin and orchestra, based on a piece by Abolhassan Saba, 1958. * Concertino for Santur & Orchestra (with

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), 1958 * ''Forugh-e Eshgh'' (Blaze of Love) - 1963 * ''Sarbaz'' (Soldier) with choir, 1966. Opera * Khosrow and Shirin (based on a romance by the 12th-century Persian poet

Nizami Ganjavi Nizami Ganjavi ( fa, نظامی گنجوی, lit=Niẓāmī of Ganja, translit=Niẓāmī Ganjavī; c. 1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was ''Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī'',Mo'in, ...

, 1970. * Mana and Mani (for children), 1979. Ballet * Bijan & Manijeh ballet (inspired from the National epic of Persia

Shahnameh The ''Shahnameh'' or ''Shahnama'' ( fa, شاهنامه, Šāhnāme, lit=The Book of Kings, ) is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 50,00 ...

Ferdowsi Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi ( fa, ; 940 – 1019/1025 CE), also Firdawsi or Ferdowsi (), was a Persians, Persian poet and the author of ''Shahnameh'' ("Book of Kings"), which is one of the world's longest epic poetry, epic poems created by a sin ...

) - premiered at Tehran's Rudaki Hall in 1975

Death

On October 15, 2019, Dehlavi died at his home in

. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for years.

References

External links

Classical Music Daily: Hossein Dehlavi profile

Hossein Dehlavi Official Website

Hossein Dehlav: Worldcat
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Biography

Selected Compositions

Death

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