Tofig Guliyev was born on November 5, 1917, Bilgah in Baku. He became a student of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire when he was 12 years old due to his musical talent. But in 1934, he became a student of Baku Conservatoire, where he studied in two faculties - fortepiano (in professor I.S.Aysberg’s class) and composer (in professor S.G.Strasser’s class). In the conservatoire young Tofig Guliyev familiarized with works of great classics of the past – Bach, Beethoven, Tschaikovsky, Schubert and other composers. The brilliant talent of Tofig Guliyev drew music communities’ attention to him and soon, in 1936, Azerbaijan’s National Committee of Education sent Tofig Guliyev to Moscow State Conservatory named after Tschaikovsky on Uzeyir Hajibeyov’s advice and initiative. There he learnt conduct and for some time studied in fortepiano class of professor Neyhauz. Soon he began to work as a pianist at well-known Estrada orchestra of those times under A.Zfasmann’s guidance, where he successfully worked till 1939. Active creativity in musical-social activity was mentioned in the 1960s-1970s. Tofig Guliyev is the participant of many international conferences, festivals, art holidays. In 1962, he took part at conference dedicated to development problem of musical art and exchange of cultural experience by the Academy of Arts invitation and later he participated at holding of Days of Azerbaijani art in Czechoslovakia, where he composed songs “Bratislava” and “Song about Prague”, which became popular in Czechoslovakia. Tofig Guliyev was the author of melodies and songs to the film: “Meeting” (1955), “Favourite song” (1955), “Stepmother” (1958), “Telephonist girl” (1962), “Nesimi” (1973), “Dervish is blowing up Paris” (1976), “A lion ran away from house” (1977), “Value of happiness” (1976), “Mother-in-law” (1978), “A paradise will not meet you here” (1982), “Memories about the pomegranate tree” (1984), “Outside” (1991). He died on October 4, 2000.

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