Ali-Akbar Shahnazi
Ali-Akbar Shahnazi was an Iranian musician and master of the tar.Biography
Ostad Ali Akbar Shahnazi was born in Tehran, Iran in 1897. His father, Mirza Hossein Gholi, another master of tar, named him Ali Akbar according to a very old tradition: the grandson should be named as his grandfather.
He recorded many pieces with noted vocalists of his time such as Eghbal Azar and Nakisa. He collaborated with other masters of his time such as Reza Mahjubi and Hosain Tehrani. He not only taught his students his father's radif collection, but also composed a beautiful radif. This he named radif-e-dore-ye-ali and taught it to his students too.
Shahnazi comes from a music family called in Persian Khandan-e-Honar, literally meaning "art dynasty".
Shahnazi died in March 1985 at the age of 88.
