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Meet spring with national artist

2 March 2018 14:12 (UTC+04:00)
Meet spring with national artist

By Laman Ismayilova

Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture will hold a meeting with national artist Arif Huseynov on March 7.

The subject of the next meeting is "Music, Fine Arts, Spring", Trend Life reported.

The event starts at 15:00.

Arif Huseynov is renown miniaturist, graphic artist and illustrator of literary works. His art works are well known not only in Azerbaijan, but also abroad.

Arif Huseynov graduated from the Art School named after Azim Azimzade. He also studied at Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. His personal exhibitions opened place in cities around the world, including Moscow, Prague, Istanbul, Tokyo and Baku.

The works of the master are kept in the Azerbaijan National Art Museum, the State Picture Gallery, the Museum of the East in Moscow, as well as in private collections.

The State Museum of Azerbaijani Musical Culture was founded in 1967. Main objectives and policies of the Museum include collection, preservation, popularization and reactivation of the materials related to the history of the Azerbaijani music.

There are more than 56,000 exhibits collected in the museum fund. Among them are such Azerbaijan national musical instruments as tar, kamancha, saz, daf, goshanaghara, zurna, ney as well as other musical instruments with specific features - cane-tar, cane-saz.

Furthermore, the museum's collection contains gramophones, gramophone records, musical boxes, original music manuscripts (scores) of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, the founder of the Azerbaijan professional music, Bulbul, the founder of the national professional vocal art, and the famous composers Gara Garayev, Fikret Amirov and other distinguished music figures, personal belongings of the prominent musicians, posters, playbills, photographs, audio and video records, fine art exhibits, sheet music, books and other materials. All of them are valuable samples of the Azerbaijan national musical culture.

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Laman Ismayilova is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow her on Twitter: @Lam_Ismayilova

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