Arif Mirzayev 1944 – 2026
Musicians and Composers
Celebrities, Musicians and Composers
Biography
Arif Abdulla oglu Mirzayev was a Soviet, Russian and Azerbaijani composer, organist and pianist, and the founder of religious-memorial organ and polyphony music in Azerbaijan. Born in Baku on April 10, 1944, into a family with deep musical traditions, he studied composition at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire in Gara Garayev’s class and organ at the Moscow Conservatory. A member of the Composers’ Unions of Russia and Azerbaijan since 1979, he was named an Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan in 2011 and was twice nominated for the State Prize of the Russian Federation, in 2000 and 2002. He later lived in Fulda, Germany. Mirzayev died on November 10, 2026, at the age of 82.
