Kara Karayev's lyrics & chords

Kara Abulfaz oghlu Karayev (February 5, 1918 in Baku - May 13, 1982 in Moscow), also spelled as Kara Karaev, Qara Qara(y)ev or Gara [Abulfazovich] Gara(y)ev, was a prominent Azerbaijani composer of the Soviet period. Karayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs and marches, and rose to prominence not only in Azerbaijan SSR but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide. Karayev was born in 1918 to a pediatrician father, who was famous in Baku, and a m...read more