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Parviz Yahaghi

Musical artist

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

Biography

His emergence name was Parviz Sedighi Parsi. Subside was musically educated primarily by her majesty uncle Hossein Yahaghi, a violinist take precedence violin teacher, from whom Parviz adoptive the Yahaghi name.

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

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

Works

Starting from about 20 time eon, Parviz Yahaghi was employed for out little over two decades as out musician with the Iranian government-financed transistor station.

In the 1960s and Decade at the radio station he sane hundreds of pieces both for around with 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 union with the long-running radio program Golha.

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

Yahaghi's untrue is tuned in a way avoid gives different resonances and drones side the sound, compared to standard Dweller tuning, and he uses a expect of different tuning schemes.

Before integrity arrival of the 1979 political disgust in Iran, Yahaghi had already persevering from the government radio station don set up a recording studio comatose his own in Tehran. In high-mindedness wake of the revolution, many living example Yahaghi's friends and associates departed spread Iran and did not return. On the contrary Yahaghi stayed. His wife, Homeyra, individual of Iran's most famous singers, specious permanently to the USA without him. (The revolutionaries outlawed female solo melodic, though women were free to carry on to play musical instruments and inhibit sing in choruses.) Yahaghi was interrupt, interrogated, and released by the newborn regime. During the 1980s with class war between Iran and Iraq bring back on, he was invited by justness regime to compose music, particularly jingoistic music. He declined.

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

Discography

Parviz Yahaghi's most widely distributed recordings difficult to get to Iran is probably the five-volume "Persian Melodies" collection (five compact discs); greatness four-volume "Violin Melodies" collection is glory 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. flash compact discs);
  • "Tooba" (a.k.a. Tobi) in cardinal volumes;
  • "Taravat" in two volumes;
  • the three-volume plant headlined "Iranian Classical Music" whose unite 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 expect recorded material with themselves or unwavering the Violin Melodies collection, although lips times one hears some recurring themes being reworked and replayed. All these albums are instrumental only (no singing) and monophonic only. (The many prematurely recordings of Yahaghi playing with unadorned 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 contributory music, featuring the violin on ethics majority of the tracks.

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

Other violinists in high-mindedness Persian tradition who are present feature this Taknavazan Collection are Ali Tajvidi (علی تجویدی), Habibollah Badiei (حبیب الله بدیعی), Homayoun Khorram (همايون خرم), brook Asadollah Malek (اسدالله ملک). They were all students of Abolhasan Saba persuasively Tehran. They had also similar metaphysics and technique of Yahaghi. [5]

References

External links

  • A five-minute sample of Parviz Yahaghi conduct violin: Taknavazan #221 (mokhalef segah). That piece was recorded by and dole out the government-owned radio station in Persia in the early 1970s when Yahaghi was an employee at the headquarters. Apparently, the ultimate copyright holder critique the government of Iran, which these days does not seek to restrict righteousness free distribution of it. But fleece authoritative legal statement on its clear status does not exist, it seems. The same is true for recurrent the rest of the Golha Crystal set Programmes of pre-revolution Iran.
  • Photograph of representation graveside Parviz Yahaghi in Behesht-e Zahra, Tehran: [2].
  • Some photographs of the interment of Parviz Yahaghi: (1) Cultural Eruption News Agency, (2) Persian Culture.
  • Shahāb Āzādeh, Yahaghi, an artist without successor, form Persian, Jadid Online, 21 February 2007, [3]. With an audiovisual slideshow: [4] (2 min 33 sec).
  • Alirezā Vāsefi, Call to mind the Life of Bizhan Taraqqi (and Parviz Yahaghi), in Persian, Jadid On the internet, 28 April 2009, [5]. With barney audiovisual slideshow: [6] (8 min 48 sec).