Gara Garayev

Personal Info

Known For Sound

Gender Male

Birthday 1918-02-05

Deathday 1982-05-13 (64 years old)

Place of Birth Baku, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]

Also Known As Кара Абульфаз оглы Караев, Kara Karayev, Qara Əbülfəz oğlu Qarayev, Гара Гараев

Gara Garayev

Biography

Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev (Azerbaijani: Qara Əbülfəz oğlu Qarayev, Russian: Кара́ Абульфа́зович Кара́ев (Kara Abulfazovich Karayev), February 5, 1918 – May 13, 1982), also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, 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.

Known For

Sound

1982
Nizami

as Original Music Composer

1982
Seven Beauties

as Original Music Composer

1971
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment

as Original Music Composer

1967
Man Casts an Anchor

as Original Music Composer

1965
The Great Patriotic War

as Original Music Composer

1961
Leyli and Majnun

as Original Music Composer

1960
Matteo Falcone

as Original Music Composer

1959
1959
1959
Real Friend

as Original Music Composer

1958
On Distant Shores

as Original Music Composer

1958
Her Great Heart

as Original Music Composer

1957
1957
Don Quixote

as Original Music Composer

1955
Vietnam

as Music

1953
The Caspian Story

as Original Music Composer

1950
The Fires of Baku

as Original Music Composer

1943
A Family

as Original Music Composer

Writer

1982
Seven Beauties

as Original Story

Actor

2024
The 309th Room: Qara Qarayev

as Self (Archive Footage)