Persian symphonic music

3 List of Composers

Persian symphonic music (sometimes referred to as

Persian polyphonic music) generally refers to the pieces
by the Persian (Iranian) composers which have been
composed for Western ensembles and orchestras, mostly
based on the Persian folk and classical melodies. Persian symphonic music also can be used for the non-Persian
composers works which are based on/inspired by Persian
music such as Henry Cowell's Persian Set.

Ali Rahbari
Mehran Rohani
Alireza Mashayekhi
Nader Mashayekhi

Majid Entezami

History

Hossein Dehlavi

The rst serious pieces of Persian symphonic music were

composed by Gholma-Reza Minbashian and GholamHossein Minbashian in around the 1930s, later by
Aminollah Hossein who lived in France and Parviz Mahmoud in the 1940s.

Samin Baghtcheban
Mohammad-Taqi Nasudiyeh
Mohammad Reza Tafazzoli

Next generation of the Persian symphonic music composers where Houshang Ostovar, Samin Baghtcheban,
Emanuel Melik-Aslanian, Morteza Hannaneh, Hossein
Nassehi, Hossein Dehlavi, Hormoz Farhat, Ahmad Pejman, and Mohammad Taghi Massoudieh, etc.

Mostafa Kamal Pourtorab

Heshmat Sanjari
Ahmad Pejman

Many symphonic pieces of the Persian composers have

not yet been performed or recorded because of nancial
and political problems in Iran.

Morteza Hannaneh

The rst collection of Persian symphonic music works

titled Symphonic Poems From Persia ("Symphonische
Dichtungen aus Persien") was performed by the
Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra under Ali Rahbari in
1980. In late 1990s Manouchehr Sahbai recorded three
CDs of Persian symphonic music pieces in Bulgaria and
Austria.

Shahin Farhat

The most active Persian composers in this style of music are Behzad Ranjbaran, Reza Vali, and Mehdi Hosseini.[1][2]

Reza Vali

Hormoz Farhat
Hossein Alizdeh
Houshang Ostovar

Aminollah Hossein
Behzad Ranjbaran

Loris Tjeknavorian

Critics

Behzad Abdi

Some critics reject combining Persian music with Western orchestration because of diering intervallic distances between Persian and Western scales but the composers have found several ways to solve such problems.
Some claim they can add more to World Symphonic music literature by this way.

Fozieh Majd
Iradj Sahbai
Alireza Farhang
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See also
Music of Iran
List of Iranian musicians

Persian operas:
Rostam and Sohrab (opera)
Persian orchestras:
Tehran Symphony Orchestra

References

[1] Tehran Times

[2] Interview with Mehdi Hosseini, The St.Petersburg Times
August 15, 2012 (Issue # 1722).

External links
Persian Mono-thematic Symphony Design by
Timothy Dunne (in English)

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