Baku, June 7, AZERTAC Composer, public figure, honored art worker, professor, people’s artist of Azerbaijan Vasif Zulfugar oglu Adigozalov was born on June 28, 1935 in Baku into the family of the famous mugham master Zulfugar Adigozalov. Primary music education he received in the music school at the Conservatory (piano class). In 1953, Vasif entered the Azerbaijan National Conservatory named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov. He studied there in two specialties at once - on composition class by Gara Garayev and piano - by Simuzar Guliyeva. In 1959, Adigozalov graduated from the Azerbaijan National Conservatory named after Uzeyir Hajibeyov, on specialty piano and composition. Vasif Adigozalov began his career in 1958 as a musical editor of the Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting. Later he worked as the executive secretary of the Union of Composers, the chief musical editor of the State Philharmonic Society named after M. Magomaev, director of the music school named after A. Zeynalli. Since 1972, Vasif Adigozalov worked as a teacher at the Azerbaijan National Conservatory. In 1990, he was elected as a First Secretary of the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan, and in 1973 he was awarded by the title of “Honored Art worker”. In 1988 he received the title of “People’s Artist of the Republic”. In 1989 he became a professor in 1990 – the State Prize Winner.Vasif Adigozalov is the author of three symphonies, the opera “The dead men”, four operettas, five symphonic poems, a concerto for violin with a symphony orchestra, 2 piano concertos accompanied by a symphony orchestra and an orchestra of Azerbaijani folk instruments, songs, romances, music for cinema and drama performances. Along with the three symphonies, which are the main works of the composer in this field, he wrote: the symphonic poem “Africa Fights” (1961), the vocal symphonic poem “Glory to the Russian People” (1964) (co-author R.Mustafayev). One of his most attractive compositions is the Piano Concerto with Symphony Orchestra, written in 1961. The concert attracts with artistic and semantic content, visual sensation of breathing of our modernity, its acute intense pulse. In 1995 he was awarded by the Order of “Shohrat” (Glory), and in 2005 - the Order “Istiglal” (Sovereignty). Vasif Adigozalov died on September 15, 2006 in Baku. He was buried on the 1st Alley of Honors.His son, People’s Artist of Azerbaijan, Professor Yalchin Adigozalov is an Azerbaijani conductor and music teacher.