Afrasiyab Badalbeyli
Birth date:
19 April 1907
Death date:
06 January 1976
Afrasiyab Badalbeyli was born in Baku.
He studied at the school under the Higher Pedagogical Institute, the Baku Theater Technical School, the Oriental Studies Faculty of Azerbaijan State University, and the music school under the Leningrad Conservatory.
At the age of 20, the music he wrote for Jafar Jabbarli's play "The Bride of Fire" was highly appreciated by art lovers. For a long time, he worked as an assistant conductor at the Moscow and Leningrad opera and ballet theaters. From 1938 until the end of his life, he worked as a conductor at the Azerbaijan State Opera and Ballet Theater. He is the author of the first ballet in Azerbaijan, and at the age of 33, he laid the foundation for the first Azerbaijani ballet in our musical history with the ballet "Maiden's Tower". In subsequent years, he wrote operas and composed music for tamas. He widely promoted national musical art on Azerbaijani radio and television.
Honored Artist (1940), People's Artist (1960) Afrasiyab Badalbeyli died in 1976 and was buried in the II Alley of Honor.
Musician Afrasiyab Badalbeyli is the wife of the first ballerina of Azerbaijan, ballet master Gamar Almaszadeh.
Musician Afrasiyab Badalbeyli is the brother of theater director and actor Shamsi Badalbeyli.
