But beginning from 2009, it was decided to hold the International Music Festival devoted to well-known Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov's creativity.

In, 1922, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, eminent Azerbaijani composer led the school.

Oleg Felzer (1939, Azerbaijan - 1998, New York) was an Azerbaijani and Soviet composer and teacher.

Azerbaijani composers created a plethora of compositions that fused mugham and traditional European genres.

Hamlet Isakhanli's poems are pleasant; certainly for this reason his poems have attracted Azerbaijani composers' attention.

Fuzûlî's version was borrowed by the renowned Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov, who used the material to create what became the Middle East's first opera.

Mahmud Shaterian(born 1944, d.2006) was a famous Iranian Azerbaijani composer,musician and Tar master.

Said Rustamov - Azerbaijani composer and conductor.

In 1915 Azerbaijani composer Zulfugar Hajibeyov wrote an opera Ashiq Qarib.

The following year, Hajiyev composed his single movement "Symphony No. 1", the first symphonic piece ever written by an Azerbaijani composer.