Elza Ibrahimova

Elza Ibrahimova was born in Hajigabul district.

She studied in the Composition class of the Asef Zeynalli Music College (1953–1957), in the Composition department of the Uzeyir Hajibeyov Azerbaijan State Conservatory (1957–1964, Gara Garayev's class).

She began her career in 1957 as a concertmaster at a music school. She worked as an editor at the Azerbaijan State Radio and Television Committee (1970–1972), as a teacher at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts (1972–1983) and at the Asef Zeynalli Music College (1985–1993). She has been engaged in composition since her student years. She composed her first song in 1969. The first performer of the song "Yalan ha deyil" was Shovket Alakbarova. She is one of the first composers to bring the tango rhythm to the stage in Azerbaijan. The work "I Would Have Sacrificed" was not well received by the artistic council because "its bourgeois melody did not correspond to the Soviet spirit." However, she later composed music in the tango rhythm such as "You Need Me" and "You Have Passed Through the Garden." She is the author of a three-part concerto for piano and orchestra written for her diploma thesis, the operas "Disaster", "Sheikh Shamil" and "Burning Lullabies", and a hymn dedicated to oil workers on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the oil industry in Azerbaijan. The work "O Motherland", performed by Rashid Behbudov, was one of the songs that glorified Azerbaijan.

Honored Artist (1992), People's Artist (2008), People's Artist of the Republic of Dagestan Elza Ibrahimova died in 2012 and was buried in the II Alley of Honor.