
Sound
Community Rating
5.7
TMDB estimate
Born
February 5, 1918
Died
May 13, 1982 (age 64)
Born in
Baku, Bakinskaya guberniya, People's Republic of Azerbaijan
Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev (Azerbaijani: Qara Əbülfəz oğlu Qarayev, Russian: Кара́ Абульфа́зович Кара́ев (Kara Abulfazovich Karayev), February 5, 1918 – May 13, 1982), also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in the Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.

The 309th Room: Qara Qarayev
as Self (Archive Footage)
2024

Seven Beauties
as Original Music Composer, Original Story
1982

Nizami
as Original Music Composer
1982

Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
as Original Music Composer
1971

Man Casts an Anchor
as Original Music Composer
1967

The Great Patriotic War
as Original Music Composer
1965

Leyli and Majnun
as Original Music Composer
1961

Matteo Falcone
as Original Music Composer
1960

Real Friend
as Original Music Composer
1959

The Golden Echelon
as Original Music Composer
1959

Sea Conquerors
as Music
1959

Her Great Heart
as Original Music Composer
1958

On Distant Shores
as Original Music Composer
1958

The Fires of Baku
as Original Music Composer
1958

Don Quixote
as Original Music Composer
1957

History Lesson
as Music
1957

Two Boys from the Same District
as Music
1957

Vietnam
as Music
1955

The Caspian Story
as Original Music Composer
1953

A Family
as Original Music Composer
1943