Uzeyir Hajibeyov

Uzeyir bey Hajibeyov is a world-wide famous composer, distinguished musicologist, publicist, playwright, pedagogue, social figure and a founder of professional art of music and national opera in Azerbaijan and the East. The works of U.Hacibeyov is considered to be a gem of world music. As his screened “Arshin Mal Alan” (1945) was sold out with great success in foreign countries (countries of Europe and Asia), it caused “Eksportfilm” (USSR’s organization dealing with movie trading in foreign countries) to order a new version of “Arshin Mal Alan” to be screened.