The Most Famous
Composers from Azerbaijan
This page contains a list of the greatest Azerbaijani Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,451 Composers, 9 of which were born in Azerbaijan. This makes Azerbaijan the birth place of the 26th most number of Composers behind India and Greece.
Top 9 Azerbaijani Composers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Azerbaijani Composers of all time. This list of famous Azerbaijani Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Uzeyir Hajibeyov
1885 - 1948
HPI 67.8549 langsUzeyir hajibeyov is most famous for composing the opera "Leyli and Majnun."
- #2
Fikret Amirov
1922 - 1984
HPI 64.0535 langsAzerbaijani composer
- #3
Gara Garayev
1918 - 1982
HPI 63.4534 langsAzerbaijani composer (1918-1982)
- #4
Avet Terterian
1929 - 1994
HPI 56.7716 langsSoviet and Armenian composer (1929–1994)
- #5
Arif Malikov
1933 - 2019
HPI 56.5720 langsSoviet and Azerbaijani composer (1933-2019)
- #6
Tofig Guliyev
1917 - 2000
HPI 55.0517 langsAzerbaijani musician (1917–2000)
- #7
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
b. 1947
HPI 54.5317 langsAzerbaijani composer
- #8
Elza Ibrahimova
1938 - 2012
HPI 53.1617 langsAzerbaijani composer
- #9
Rauf Hajiyev
1922 - 1995
HPI 52.2115 langsAzerbaijani musician (1922-1995)
Overlapping Lives
Which Composers were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 8 most globally memorable Composers since 1700.
