Shafiga Akhundova

✶January 21, 1924

†July 26, 2013

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Shafiga Akhundova was a prominent Azerbaijani composer, the first professional female author of an opera in the East and People's Artist of Azerbaijan.

Akhundova was born into a family of an eminent cultural figure Gulam Akhundov in Shaki in 1924. Gulam Bagir oglu Akhundov, who was a public servant and intellectual of his time, worked as the first secretary of Shaki between 1917 and 1920, while her mother was a housewife.

Azerbaijani composer (1924-2013)

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Biography from the article Shafiga Akhundova on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.