14 Facts About Gara Garayev

Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer.

In 1926, at the age of eight, Gara Garayev first entered the junior music school at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire, currently known as the Baku Music Academy.

In 1937, Garayev joined the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan SSR.

In 1938, at the age of twenty, Garayev composed his first musical piece, a cantata "The Song of the Heart" to the poem by Rasul Rza.

In 1941 Garayev returned to Baku to teach at Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Society.

In 1948, at the age of 30, Garayev was again awarded this prize for his symphonic poem Leyli and Majnun, based on the same-titled famous work of Nizami Ganjavi.

In 1948 Garayev became the delegate to the First National USSR Congress of Soviet Composers.

In 1962 Garayev became a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and visited the United States, Ethiopia, and Lebanon.

Gara Garayev's body was flown to Baku and buried at the Alley of Honor.

Gara Garayev is extremely knowledgeable about instrumentation, polyphony and the other components that make up music.

Gara Garayev maintains his own individuality even while changing with the times, regardless of genre.

Gara Garayev made his students learn the inner workings of folk music.

Gara Garayev was an indisputable authority in music circles in the USSR.

Gara Garayev had an encyclopedic knowledge of almost everything related to problems of life as well as problems of art regardless of whether it was in the field of science, music or literature.