Aliasghar Bahari

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Ostad Ali Asghar Bahari (b. 1905, Tehran, Iran – 10 June 1995; Farsi: علی‌اصغر بهاری, also spelled Ali-Asghar Bahari or Ali Asghar Bahari) was a distinguished Iranian kamancheh player, considered one of the great Iranian traditional musicians. Besides performing on the kamancheh, he also composed a repertoire of pieces for the instrument. He was born in Tehran to Baharian parents and began studying music under the guidance of his grandfather Mohammad Taghi Khan, who was a kamancheh player as well. After three years, his father arranged for his uncles' to teach him more advanced techniques. Bahari had three uncles: Akbar, Reza and Hassan, who were all famous kamancheh players at the time. His first major success was with Ebrahim Khan Mansouri's Orchestra at the age of 18. Bahari established his own music school in Mashhad, then moved back to Tehran and became a kamancheh instructor in Honarestan under Ruhollah Khaleghi. When Bahari began playing over Radio Iran in 1952, the kamancheh had generally fallen out of public favor, and it was in many ways his extensive concertizing and broadcasting that created a renewal in the instrument's status in classical Iranian music. His invitation to go to France to record for national radio in 1966 was an appropriate tribute to the virtuoso talents he had developed by the time he was in his '60s. These recordings were released as part of the brilliant Philips series, Modal Music and Improvisation. He played with famous Iranian musician

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