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Gara Garayev

1918 - 1982

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Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev (February 5, 1918 – May 13, 1982) was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in the Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gara Garayev is the 538th most popular composer (up from 541st in 2019), the 33rd most popular biography from Azerbaijan (up from 36th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Azerbaijani Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Gara Garayev ranks 538 out of 1,451. Before him are Franz Xaver Richter, Erwin Schulhoff, Terry Riley, Albert Ketèlbey, Michael Kamen, and Vasily Kalinnikov. After him are Henri Duparc, R. D. Burman, Johann Adam Hiller, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Hans Swarowsky, and Philippe Herreweghe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Gara Garayev ranks 95. Before him are Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Philip José Farmer, Thomas Gordon, Jean-Marie Loret, Ian Stevenson, and Dora Ratjen. After him are Antonín Mrkos, Huber Matos, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Ben Johnson, William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw, and Henry Calvin. Among people deceased in 1982, Gara Garayev ranks 90. Before him are Fazlur Rahman Khan, Wifredo Lam, Jean Girault, Pavel Alexandrov, Isa Miranda, and Marcel Camus. After him are Henry King, Valerio Zurlini, Savitri Devi, Helene Deutsch, Randy Rhoads, and Riccardo Paletti.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Gara Garayev ranks 33 out of 232. Before him are Zarifa Aliyeva (1923), Gavriil Ilizarov (1921), Fatali Khan Khoyski (1875), Shirali Muslimov (1805), Tofiq Bahramov (1925), and Fikret Amirov (1922). After him are Mir Jafar Baghirov (1896), Zeynab Khanlarova (1936), Mirza Shafi Vazeh (1794), Vagit Alekperov (1950), Mahsati (1089), and Vladimir Menshov (1939).

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Among COMPOSERS In Azerbaijan

Among composers born in Azerbaijan, Gara Garayev ranks 3. Before him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885), and Fikret Amirov (1922). After him are Avet Terterian (1929), Arif Malikov (1933), Tofig Guliyev (1917), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947), Elza Ibrahimova (1938), and Rauf Hajiyev (1922).

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