The Most Famous

COMPOSERS from Iran

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This page contains a list of the greatest Iranian Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,451 Composers, 1 of which were born in Iran. This makes Iran the birth place of the 59th most number of Composers behind Uzbekistan, and Peru.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Iranian Composers of all time. This list of famous Iranian Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Ivan Galamian (1903 - 1981)

With an HPI of 57.52, Ivan Galamian is the most famous Iranian Composer.  His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.

Ivan Alexander Galamian (Armenian: Իվան Ղալամեան; February 5 [O.S. January 23] 1903 – April 14, 1981) was an Armenian-American violin teacher of the twentieth century who was the violin teacher of many seminal violin players including Itzhak Perlman.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Iranian composers born between 1903 and 1903. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Iranian composers include Ivan Galamian.

Deceased Iranian Composers

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