Background
Darvish Khan was born in Tehran. His teachers included his father and Aqa Hossein-Qoli Farahani.
Darvish Khan was born in Tehran. His teachers included his father and Aqa Hossein-Qoli Farahani.
Later, he attended the Dar ol-Fonoon Music School.
Darvish was a very talented player and composer of tar. He added a sixth cord to this instrument in order to extend its tuning possibilities and to enhance its sound. He is known to have invented "pish-daramad", a free-standing composition played at the beginning of a performance.
He played a concert at the Grand Hotel of Tehran with other great masters of Persian music of his time, including Aref Qazvini.
Darvish left for London and Tbilisi to record
He died at the age of 54, on 22 November 1926, in an accident. His carriage was hit by a lorry automobile which was very rare at that time.
lieutenant is said that he was the first Iranian to be killed in a car accident.
He was a member of the Aziz Soltan music group.