Agshin Alizadeh

{{Short description|Azerbaijani composer (1937–2014)}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1937|05|22}}

| birth_place = Baku, Azerbaijan

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|05|03|1937|05|22}}

| death_place = Baku, Azerbaijan

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| occupation = Composer

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| known_for = Babek (ballet)

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Agshin Aligulu Alizade ({{langx|az|Aqşin Əliqulu oğlu Əlizadə}}; May 22, 1937 in Baku – May 3, 2014 in Baku) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer, People's Artist of the Azerbaijani SSR (1987).

Alizade made a significant contribution to the development of the Azerbaijani ballet. He was the creator of the first Azerbaijan heroic epic ballet "Babak", established in 1979 on the poem by Ilya Selvinsky (premiered in 1986).{{cite news |title=A dialogue in art |url=http://www.iranian.com/DariusKadivar/2003/January/Ballet/1.html |work=The Iranian |date=4 January 2003 |accessdate=26 November 2011 }} The next ballet "Journey to the Caucasus",[http://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/ai104_folder/104_articles/104_news_caspian_ballet.html Agshin Alizade: New Ballet - "Journey to the Caucasus,"] by Aida Huseinova, in Azerbaijan International, Vol. 10:4 (Winter 2002), p. 12.{{cite news|title=Azerbaijan's cultural places to end summer season in July |url=http://en.apa.az/print.php?id=28839 |publisher=Azeri Press Agency |accessdate=26 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407091040/http://en.apa.az/print.php?id=28839 |archivedate=7 April 2012 }} which reflected the events of the history of Azerbaijan and the image of the poet Khurshidbanu Natavan and the French writer Alexandre Dumas, embodied the vital problems of modern history, as if expressing the principle of "the past in the present." The same trend projections of past events in modern life emerged in the last one-act ballet, "Waltz of Hope."

Alizade headed the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan,{{cite news|title=Maestro Niyazi's 95th anniversary marked video |url=http://en.apa.az/print.php?id=33147 |publisher=Azeri Press Agency |date=20 August 2007 |accessdate=26 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120407091046/http://en.apa.az/print.php?id=33147 |archivedate=7 April 2012 }} and was the Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers. He was also awarded People's Artist of Azerbaijan SSR, laureate of State Prize (1978)[http://www.anl.az/down/he_serencamlar.pdf Ədəbiyyat, incəsənət və arxitektura sahəsində 1978-ci il Azərbaycan SSR Dövlət mükafatlarının verilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan KP MK-nın və Azərbaycan SSR Nazirlər Sovetinin 1978-ci il tarixli Qərarı] — anl.az