Javād Ma'roufi ( fa, جواد معروفی ), (1912 in

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– December 7, 1993, in Tehran) was an Iranian

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and

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Biography

Javād Ma'roufi was born in Tehran to the musician father Musā Ma'roufi and mother Ozrā Ma'roufi (or ''Ezra'' Ma'roufi) who both were distinguished pupils of

Darvish Khan Darvish Khan ( fa, درویش‌خان , Gholam Hossein Darvish; 1872 – 22 November 1926) was a Persian classical musician and a tar player.http://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news.aspx?id=44944 Biography Darvish Khan was born in Tehran. His teac ...

, a renowned music master of the time in Iran. Javād Ma'roufi lost his mother at young age,The biography from which this information has been drawn indicates that Javād Ma'roufi was five years old when his sister ''Narges Ma'roufi'' was born and that Ms Ozrā Ma'roufi died "several years later". See the biographical section of the Official Website o
''Ostād Javād Ma'roufi''
and consequently grew up in his paternal family. He was taught in music first by his father, playing both the

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and the

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. At fourteen he attended the Academy of Music of which

Ali-Naqi Vaziri Ali-Naqi Vaziri, also transcribed as Ali Naghi Vaziri (Persian: علی نقی وزیری) (October 1, 1886 in Tehran, Persia – September 9, 1979) was a composer, thinker and a celebrated player of the tar. He is considered a revolutionary i ...

was the director and where he studied the

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under the music master Tatiana Kharatian (تاتیانا خاراطیان). During this period he studied works by Chopin,

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and Bach. Ma'roufi died in the morning of Tuesday 7 December 1993 (16 Āzar 1372 AH) in a hospital in Tehran.

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External links

Official Website of Ostād Javād Ma'roufi

''Kanun-e Honari-e Rouhollah Khaleghi''

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