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| Ma’roufi: Iran’s iconic maestro |
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 Maestro Javad Ma’roufi was an accomplished Iranian pianist, composer, and soloist who sought to bring traditional and Western music together during his lifetime. Born in 1925, he learned basic musical skills at an early age and studied at a school of music playing the tar (a musical instrument belonging to the lute family). However, he set the tar aside at the age of 14 and began playing the piano. In 1932, he was employed at the Ministry of Culture because of his high talent and became a music instructor in the schools of Tehran. He immediately began teaching solo singing and music dictation at Tehran’s Music High School. Ma’roufi also became a member of the National Music Orchestra and a solo pianist. He was contemporary with Abulhassan Saba, Habib Samaei, Hossein Tehrani, Ahmad Ebadi, Ali Asghar Bahari, Ruhollah Khaleqi, and many other maestros and created many masterpieces with them. He was a radio soloist for a long time and became an orchestra composer afterwards. He became a music official of the radio in 1953 and later on joined the High Society of Music. Maestro Ma’roufi taught music techniques and original music styles at University of Tehran where he trained a large number of students during his prosperous lifetime such as Ardeshir Rowhani, Ophelia Parto, Anoushiravan Rowhani, Parviz Atabeigi, Mahin Zarrin Panje, and Sassan Mohebbi. Many music pieces remain from Maestro Ma’roufi such as the Zhila Fantasy, Golden Dreams, Ashura, Romina and Nature, Autumn, My Life, rhapsody (Isfahan Style), Vehement Passions, Sweet Dreams, Gone with the Wind, and the Seven Iranian Dastgahs (a certain mode in Persian music) for the piano. With over forty years of experience in composition, Maestro Ma’roufi was the first to write Iranian music for the piano. He passed away on December 7, 1993.   Socialize this Subscribe to our RSS feed to stay in touch and receive all of TT updates right in your feed reader
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