Muslim Magomayev (composer)

[3] He studied at a primary school in Grozny before being admitted to the Gori Pedagogical Seminary (in present-day Georgia) in 1900.

In 1911, he received a license that allowed him to teach in high schools and moved to a Baku suburb, Sabunchu.

[3] In 1916, Magomayev wrote his first opera entitled Shah Ismayil based on the homonymous Azeri folk epic.

Written in 1935, this successful propaganda opera depicts Azerbaijani communists in their fight against the short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

Muslim Magomayev’s mugham opera Shah Ismayil was composed in 1915-1916 and consists of 6 acts and 7 scenes.

In 1938, the opera was shown during the Decade of Azerbaijani Arts in Moscow, with the editorship of Reinhold Glière.