Zemfira Safarova (born 10 June 1937) is an Azerbaijani and Soviet musicologist, doctor of art history,

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

(1998), full member of the

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) ( az, Azərbaycan Milli Elmlər Akademiyası (AMEA)), located in Baku, is the main state research organization and the primary body that conducts research and coordinates activities in the fields of ...

(2017),

Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (; ) was an honorary title awarded by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR) and was one of the forms of recognition by the state and society of the mer ...

(1989), Honored Worker of Science of the Azerbaijan SSR, and laureate of the

Humay Award Humay Award () was an Azerbaijani national achievement award, established in 1993 by the Baku International Cultural Society and was active until 2019. History The first award ceremony was held at the Gulustan Palace in March 1994. For the fir ...

Biography

Zemfira Safarova was born on June 10, 1937, in

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, in the family of oil engineer Yusif Safarov. In 1960 she graduated from the Faculty of Theory and Composition of the

Baku Academy of Music The Hajibeyov Baku Academy of Music (Azeri: ''Hacıbəyov adına Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası'') is a music school in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was established in 1920 in Baku and was previously known as the Hajibeyov Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. H ...

, in 1966 she completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Architecture and Art of the

(headed by I. Ya. Ryzhkin). In 1970 she defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Musical and aesthetic concept of

Uzeyir Hajibeyov Uzeyir bey Abdulhuseyn oghlu Hajibeyov ( az, Üzeyir bəy Əbdülhüseyn oğlu Hacıbəyov; russian: Узеир Абдул-Гусейн оглы Гаджибеков, translit=Uzeir Abdul-Guseyn ogly Gadzhibekov; September 18, 1885November 23, 19 ...

”. From 1959 to 1962 she taught at the ten-year music school at the

. Since 1966 he has been a researcher (since 1975 a senior researcher), and since 1980 he has been the head of the department of Azerbaijani musical art at the Institute of Architecture and Art of the Academy of Sciences of the

Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan ( az, Азәрбајҹан, Azərbaycan, italics=no), officially the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (Azerbaijan SSR; az, Азәрбајҹан Совет Сосиалист Республикасы, Azərbaycan Sovet Sosialist R ...

. She became a full member of

in 2007. Since May 2, 2017, he is an academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

Awards

(1989) * Honored Worker of Science of the Azerbaijan SSR * Laureate of the Humay Award

References

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Biography

Awards

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