Ali-Naqi Vaziri

Ali Naghi Vaziri (Persian علینقی وزیری; * 1887 in Tehran, † September 9, 1979 in Tehran ) was an Iranian musician, musicologist and composer.

Life

Ali Naghi Vaziri, was born in 1887 as son of Musa Khan Vaziri, an officer of the Persian Cossack Brigade, and Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, a writer and founder of the Iranian women's movement. His first lessons on the Tar, which was to be his favorite instrument later, he received 15 years by an uncle. Later, he decided to visit a Dar al- Fonoun and studied western music theory with Yavar Agha Khan there.

Vaziri 1918 traveled to Paris and Berlin to his studies in the areas of composition, piano and voice to deepen. After his return to Iran in 1923 he founded his own music school. Vaziri also succeeded initially against the will of the authorities to offer music lessons for girls at his school. Vaziri 1928 was director of the Conservatory of Music in Tehran. After the founding of the University of Tehran in 1936 Vaziri received a professorship at the University of Tehran, a position he held until his retirement in 1965. Vaziri understood in contrast to the tradition arrested only Borumand Ali (1905-1977) as a reformer who sought to integrate Western melodies in the radif, the basic form of classical Persian music and experimented with quarter-tone scales.

Vaziri founded in 1941 together with Rouholla Khaleghi the Novin Orchestra Radio Iran. From 1946 he devoted himself exclusively to his teaching at the University of Tehran. At the age of 91 years Vaziri died on 9 September 1979 in Tehran.