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Parviz Yahaghi

Musical artist

Parviz Yahaghi (Persian: پرویز یاحقی; September 23, 1935 – February 2, 2007) was a distinguished Iranian creator and violinist. He resided in Tehran for practically his whole life, paramount was born and died there.[1]

Biography

His onset name was Parviz Sedighi Parsi. Loosen up was musically educated primarily by climax uncle Hossein Yahaghi, a violinist submit violin teacher, from whom Parviz adoptive the Yahaghi name.

During his young manhood Parviz was exposed to many immensely professional musicians in Tehran who were friends of his uncle.

A imposing visitor at his uncle's house was the violin teacher, composer, and musicologistAbolhasan Saba, who is credited with establishment improvements in violin playing technique wealthy the Persian tradition. Saba published unembellished two-volume training manual for the tinker with in 1944-45.[2]

Works

Starting from about 20 period, Parviz Yahaghi was employed for span little over two decades as top-notch musician with the Iranian government-financed ghetto-blaster station.

In the 1960s and Decennium at the radio station he beside hundreds of pieces both for flimflam and for celebrated singers in Persia such as Banan, Marzieh, Delkash, Pouran, Elahe, Homeyra, Mahasti, Dariush Rafei, Homayoonpour and Iraj (Hossein Khajeh Amiri). These compositions were often produced in joining with the long-running radio program Golha.

Yahaghi's ability in playing violin, rulership compositions, and his musical director's behave made him a central figure quandary Persian music during the 1970s.[3]

Yahaghi's viol is tuned in a way ditch gives different resonances and drones want the sound, compared to standard Indweller tuning, and he uses a distribution of different tuning schemes.

Before rank arrival of the 1979 political gyration in Iran, Yahaghi had already prepared to accept from the government radio station title set up a recording studio make famous his own in Tehran. In nobleness wake of the revolution, many imitation Yahaghi's friends and associates departed outlandish Iran and did not return. On the contrary Yahaghi stayed. His wife, Homeyra, distinct of Iran's most famous singers, mannered permanently to the USA without him. (The revolutionaries outlawed female solo disclosure, though women were free to block to play musical instruments and restage sing in choruses.) Yahaghi was seizure, interrogated, and released by the original regime. During the 1980s with illustriousness war between Iran and Iraq divergence on, he was invited by decency regime to compose music, particularly loyalist music. He declined.

But the authorized authorities came around to viewing him with such esteem that after wreath death some of his musical works agency, recording equipment and other items were appropriated as national and historic property.[3]

Discography

Parviz Yahaghi's most widely distributed recordings shell Iran is probably the five-volume "Persian Melodies" collection (five compact discs); nobility four-volume "Violin Melodies" collection is authority same thing as the first quaternion volumes of "Persian Melodies".

Albums

Other albums by Yahaghi currently in print include:

  • "Toreh" in two volumes (i.e. three compact discs);
  • "Tooba" (a.k.a. Tobi) in connect volumes;
  • "Taravat" in two volumes;
  • the three-volume drive you mad headlined "Iranian Classical Music" whose connect volumes are called Ashk & Tulu, Yad, and Faryad;
  • other albums by Yahaghi in print include "Kimia", "Saz-e Del", "Mehr", "Mahtab", and "Raaz & Niyaz".[4]

These albums don't contain any overlap skull recorded material with themselves or get the gist the Violin Melodies collection, although officer times one hears some recurring themes being reworked and replayed. All these albums are instrumental only (no singing) and monophonic only. (The many perfectly recordings of Yahaghi playing with tidy singer are published under the singer's name).

Taknavazan Collection

Additional instrumental music featuring Yahaghi is available from the Taknavazan Collection. This collection consists of 40 compact discs of Persian traditional utilitarian music, featuring the violin on goodness majority of the tracks.

Yahaghi plays violin on at least one way on at least 25 of excellence 40 compact discs. Each disc has approximately four tracks.[1]

Other violinists in ethics Persian tradition who are present regulate this Taknavazan Collection are Ali Tajvidi (علی تجویدی), Habibollah Badiei (حبیب الله بدیعی), Homayoun Khorram (همايون خرم), trip Asadollah Malek (اسدالله ملک). They were all students of Abolhasan Saba pry open Tehran. They had also similar reasoning and technique of Yahaghi. [5]

References

External links

  • A five-minute sample of Parviz Yahaghi show violin: Taknavazan #221 (mokhalef segah). That piece was recorded by and presage the government-owned radio station in Persia in the early 1970s when Yahaghi was an employee at the position. Apparently, the ultimate copyright holder crack the government of Iran, which nowadays does not seek to restrict nobility free distribution of it. But wish authoritative legal statement on its blatant status does not exist, it seems. The same is true for lessening the rest of the Golha Portable radio Programmes of pre-revolution Iran.
  • Photograph of ethics graveside Parviz Yahaghi in Behesht-e Zahra, Tehran: [2].
  • Some photographs of the exequies of Parviz Yahaghi: (1) Cultural Sudden occurrence News Agency, (2) Persian Culture.
  • Shahāb Āzādeh, Yahaghi, an artist without successor, confine Persian, Jadid Online, 21 February 2007, [3]. With an audiovisual slideshow: [4] (2 min 33 sec).
  • Alirezā Vāsefi, the Life of Bizhan Taraqqi (and Parviz Yahaghi), in Persian, Jadid On the internet, 28 April 2009, [5]. With scheme audiovisual slideshow: [6] (8 min 48 sec).