Biography
Tofig Guliyev, born 1917, is famous for his classic melodies and song. There's hardly a single famous Azerbaijani singer who has not sung one of his compositions. He now directs the Composer's Union of Azerbaijan of which he has been a member and Secretary for the past 25 years. He's wants music lovers internationally to know that Azerbaijan's Composer's Union desperately needs 3,000 sheets each of 14 and 30 staff music paper so Azerbaijan's composers can continue to write and orchestrate during this difficult transition.
Tofig Guliyev is one of the most celebrated contemporary composers of Azerbaijan whose works have become classics and been performed by Azerbaijan's foremost vocalists such as Bulbul, Rashid Behbudov and Shovkat Alakbarova. He was one of the founders of the Jazz movement in Azerbaijan during the sixties.
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