Sa'id Hormozi

rdf:langString Sa'id Hormozi

rdf:langString Sa'id Hormozi

rdf:langString Sa'id Hormozi

rdf:langString Sa'id Hormozi, playing a setar.

rdf:langString **Mandatory** Use one: solo_singer, non_vocal_instrumentalist, non_performing_personnel, or temporary

rdf:langString ca. 1898

rdf:langString Sa'id Hormozi, playing a setar.

rdf:langString سعید هرمزی

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rdf:langString musician, educator

rdf:langString Ostad Sa'id Hormozi (Persian: سعید هرمزی) (1898–1976) was an Iranian musician who is remembered for his efforts to "promote authentic Iranian music" and pass it to modern musicians. He was born in one of the old neighborhoods of Tehran called Sangalaj. He was a prominent radif master and virtuoso tar and setar player. He was a student of Darvish Khan (student of Mirza Hossein-Qoli, "one of the pioneers of Iranian music"), who awarded Hormozi with the medal of the "Golden Hatchet". That prize was given only to Khan's best students. He also studied musical color and rhythm with Haj Ali Akbar Khan Shahnaz (son of that same Mirza Hossein-Qoli). He was friends and regularly played with Soleiman Khan Amir Ghasemi, a "famous professors of Iranian song and music." In 1928 Hormozi founded a school of music in Shapur street in Tehran. Later he cooperated with the "Center for preservation and propagation of Persian music" as a master teacher (Ostad) of setar, teaching musicians who were already professors of music. On October 30, 1976 he died after a long illness.