Artist Info: Andre Hossein

André Hossein, born Aminoullah Husseinoff (Persian: امين الله حسين; Russian: Аминулла Гусейнов; 1905, Samarkand – 9 August 1983, Paris) was a celebrated French composer of Neo-Romantic music and a tar soloist of Persian-Azeri descent.[1]


His mother was a Persian woman from Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) and his father was an Azeri merchant, originally from the Caucasus. Aminollah Hossein lived for a few years in Persia (Iran) before he left the country for his academic studies. [read more...]