Zemfira Safarova

Zemfira Safarova (born 10 June 1937) is an Azerbaijani and Soviet musicologist, doctor of art history, professor (1998), full member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2017), Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1989), Honored Worker of Science of the Azerbaijan SSR, and laureate of the Humay Award.[1]

Zemfira Yusif gizi Safarova
Born (1937-06-10) 10 June 1937
Kislovodsk, USSR
AwardsHonored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR ( 1989)
Honored Worker of Science of Azerbaijan
laureate of the Humay Award
Scientific career
InstitutionsMusicologist, Doctor of art history

Biography

Zemfira Safarova was born on June 10, 1937, in Kislovodsk, USSR, in the family of oil engineer Yusif Safarov.[2] In 1960 she graduated from the Faculty of Theory and Composition of the Baku Academy of Music, in 1966 she completed her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Architecture and Art of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (headed by I. Ya. Ryzhkin).[3] In 1970 she defended her Ph.D. thesis on the topic “Musical and aesthetic concept of Uzeyir Hajibeyov”.

From 1959 to 1962 she taught at the ten-year music school at the Baku Academy of Music. Since 1966 he has been a researcher (since 1975 a senior researcher), and since 1980 he has been the head of the department of Azerbaijani musical art at the Institute of Architecture and Art of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR. She became a full member of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences in 2007. Since May 2, 2017, he is an academician of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.[4]

Awards

See also

References
  1. ANAS (2009). "Zemfira Yusif qızı Səfərova". Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 August 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. Raya Abbasova (January 2016). "Юсиф Сафаров. Страницы биографии". www.yol.az. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  3. Сафарова, Земфира Юсуф-кызы // Большая биографическая энциклопедия.
  4. "афарова Земфира Юсиф кызы". science.gov.az. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
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