Galib Mammadov

Galib Mammadov (born April 19, 1946) is an Azerbaijani-Norwegian composer. He is influenced by both Western and Eastern music traditions and composed a wide range of musical pieces for various instruments and orchestras. Biography Galib Mammadov was born in Ganja, Azerbaijan which, at that time, belonged to the Soviet Union. He completed his secondary education at the music grammar school in Baku, Azerbaijan, and took at the same time lessons from the Azerbaijanian composer Fikret Amirov. Mammadov then moved to Baku and went to the music college Asaf Zeynally, where he attended classes in music theory, composition and music literature, held by the composer Khayyam Mirzazade, the music historian R. Farhadova, and Z. Stelnic. In 1969, Mammadov enrolled at the Azerbaijanian Republic Music Conservatory (Uzeir Hajibeyov). There he attended the composition class of the composer Gara Garayev. While studying at the conservatory he composed preludes, variations, and sonata for piano, Sonatina for oboe and piano, scherzo for flute and piano and a string quartet. He graduated in 1975 with Bayaties, a vocal cycle for soprano, bass and symphony orchestra, based on the text of the Azerbaijanian