Background
Tofig Bakikhanov, a descendant of Baku khans, was born on December 8, 1930, in Baku, in the family of Ahmed–agha Bakikhanov, People"s Artist of Azerbaijan.
Tofig Bakikhanov, a descendant of Baku khans, was born on December 8, 1930, in Baku, in the family of Ahmed–agha Bakikhanov, People"s Artist of Azerbaijan.
In 1953, Tofig Bakikhanov graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory specializing in violin, where Fikret Amirov was his teacher. In 1957, he majored in music composing, where his teacher was another prominent Azerbaijani composer Gara Garayev.
He began his musical activity as a violinist. In 1950-1953, Bakikhanov worked as a violinist in the trio of the Azerbaijan Philharmonic Society. In 1953, he was the teacher and head of the string department of the Zeynally Baku College of Music.
In 1966, he managed the department of arts edition and from 1968, the department of note-music literature of the Azernashr publishing house.
Tofig Bakikhanov is the author of concerts for violin, violoncello, flute, oboe, dual concerts, musical comedies. Now the composer is the professor of Baku Academy of Music.
Starting from 1969 till now, Tofig Bakikhanov performed recitals in Paris, Moscow, Tbilisi, Istanbul, Izmir, Tehran and in other cities. "Mammadali is going to resort" (with Mammadov, Baku, 1968)
"One of six" operetta (with Mammadov, Baku, 1964)
"The girl is in a hurry to a date"
"On remote shores" poem (1956)
"Welcoming overture" (1961)
Three symphonies for chamber orchestra (1960, 1962, 1963)
In 1968, Tofig Bakikhanov"s Caspian Ballade ballet was staged at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater.
"Eastern poem" (1976), "Good and evil" (1990) compositions followed this ballet.
6 symphonies, 5 symphonic poems for different instruments: 24 sonatas, 26 concerts with symphonic orchestra, vocal and instrumental compositions.