Habil Mustafa oglu Aliyev's life was hard but interesting. He was born in the village of Uchqovaq in the Agdash region of the Azerbaijan Republic on May 28, 1927. At the age of 7, he started his seven years of primary education at school No. 3 in the center of the region. At that time, the famous singer and teacher of music, Ahmed Agdamsky (Ahmed Bashir oghlu Badalbeyli), was renting a room in Habil's house, where he was often visited by musicians who talked of mugham and tesnif and of the national music, sometimes playing the tar or kamancha. Little Habil listened with a child's interest to the music and the conversations he did not understand. But it was then that his love of art appeared, wafting day after day in his heart, encouraged by his mother, Nisa Khanum. As Habil Aliyev recalls, "I came to art thanks to two people. One of them is Ahmed Agdamsky and the other is my mother. Ahmed Agdamsky showed me what art is and my mother developed my love of it. I remember how, as a child, I used to rub a ladle against a rolling-pin. My mother would watch and say joyfully, 'My son might become a kamancha player...' Ahmed Agdamsky supported her, 'Yes, Nisa badji (sister), the boy wants to be a musician. Let him go to our music school. It'll be good for him. My mother liked the idea and I went to the music school in Agdash. At first I displayed an interest in the tar, but as I was physically weak, my wrist couldn't cope and so I chose the kamancha. From then on my interest was c

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