Arif Melikov

Arif Melikov was born on September 13, 1933 in Baku. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Baku musical college in 1948-1951, and in 1953-1958 studied at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory.

A. Malikov, who began his career as a teacher at the Shusha city music school in 1951-1952, joined the Azerbaijan State Conservatory in 1960, where he worked as a senior lecturer in 1966-1968, associate professor in 1968-1978, and since 1986 he has been the head of the composer chair.

Along with the composer's activities, Arif Malikov has served as a prominent educator for many years and has provided exceptional services in the field of training of young musicians and professional musicians. Arif Melikov, as a people's deputy of the USSR, has always demonstrated a patriotic intellectual position in the socio-political life of our republic in the last decades of the last century.