Persian classical music goes back a long way. Musicians like Barbod were legendary in the empire of the Sassanid era.
Until the early 20th century, musiqi-e assil was heard almost entirely at the royal courts of the monarchy. The Qajar dynasty ruled until 1925, with their influence declining since the turn of the century. Musiqi-e assil became a more common past-time for the next few decades, especially after cassettes were introduced in the 1960s. Before the 1979 revolution, Iran produced the Classic / Dastgahi singing stars Gholam Hossein Banan,Delkash, Marzeyeh,Hengameh Akhavan, Akbar Golpa, Elahe,Parisa,Khonsari,Homayra,Mahasti,Iraj,Hoosham nd Aghili and instrumentalists like Abolhasan Saba, Asghar Bahari, Ahmad Ebadi, Hossein Tehrani,Faramarz Payvar, Ali Tadjvidi, Dariush Talai, Muhammad Heidari and Hassan Kassai.
The years after the 1979 revolution coincided with a renaissance in Persian classical music, from which emerged Islamic Republic approved stars like Parviz Meshkatian,Arshad Tahmasebi, Davod Ganjeyi, Jamshid Andalibi, Kayhan Kalhor, Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Hossein Alizadeh, Dariush Talai, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, and Shahram Nazeri. The renaissance brought popularity to the genre. Even though the revolution era coincided with the music's popularity, music and Islam have not always meshed well, and many Iranian conservatives disliked even the simple melodies and lyrics of classical music. Women were banned from singing as soloists for male audience, though they were allowed to continue performing as soloists for female audience, as instrumentalists and in chorus.
Most notable living Iranian classical vocalists are: Shajarian, Shahram Nazeri,Parissa, Akbar Golpa, Iraj. Among relatively news outstanding classic vocalists we can name: Hesamuddin Seraj, Mohsen keramati, Salar Aghili, Alireza Ghorbani, Homayoun Shajarian, Afsaneh Rasaei, Mozafar Shafi’i, Ali Jahandar, Mahsa Vahdat and Hamid Reza Nourbakhsh.
More notable Iranian progressive musicians whom at their own time have created modern and contemporary Persian classical based theories and styles include the late Ostad Parviz Yahaghi, Ostad Madjid Kiani, the late Ostad Asadollah Malek, the late Ostad Mohammad Baharloo, the late Ostad Alinaghi Vaziri, the late Ostad Varzandeh, the late Ostad Hossein Tehrani, Ostad Faramarz Payvar and Ostad Bahman Rajabi whom have impacted and influenced the classical Iranian traditions with their respective innovative musical approaches.
Sound file samples of classical Iranian music:
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