[4] Hormoz Farhat was born on 9 August 1928, in Tehran, the capital city of what was then Imperial State of Persia, but renamed in 1935 as Iran.

[5] His father Ebrahim Farat was a senior official at the Persian Ministry of Finance married to his mother Sedique.

[4] The Farhat family had descended from a long line of "secularised Muslims", many of whom were civil servicemen like Ebrahim.

[12] Among his students at Trinity College was Donnacha Dennehy, who became among the leading Irish composers of contemporary classical music.

Naive, 1970); and Nasser Taghvai: Aaraamesh dar hozoor-e digaraan (Tranquility in the Presence of Others, 1972); and Saadegh Kordeh (Sadeq the Kurdish, 1973).

In 1970, Farhat was awarded The Golden Plaque for Best Music for the score of Mehrjui's internationally acclaimed film Gaav.