Niyazi  (1912-1984)

He was the first Azerbaijani conductor to gain international recognition and founder of the professional conductor's school in Azerbaijan. 

He was honored as People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan State Prize Laureate and received teh Nehru international Prize.

As a composer, he wrote the opera Khosrov and Shirin (1940( and the ballet Chitra (1971), as well as other works of symphonic and chamber music.