He left Shusha as a child, and lived and worked in Ganja for a while, before moving to Tbilisi, Batumi, Vladikavkaz, Istanbul and other cities.

[2] It was through such mughams as "Bayati-Kurd", "Rast", "Shur", "Chahargah", "Zabul-Segah", "Kurdi-Shahnaz", "Heyrati", "Mansuriyya", "Samai-Shams", "Karabakh Shikastasi", "Arazbari", "Keremi", and "Afshari" that Mashadi Mammad gained popularity and became known as the master of "Shushtar".

[3] Mashadi Mammad Farzaliyev received an invitation in 1912 from Sport-Record, a company operating in Warsaw.

He recorded about 40 mughams, tasnifs and songs, accompanied by Gurban Pirimov and kamancheh player Sasha Oganezashvili in Warsaw.

In 1926, Mashadi Mammad Farzaliyev performed in many cities in Russia, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, England, Austria, Romania, Turkey and Iran.