Mojtaba Mirzadeh

Mojtaba Mirzadeh (Persian: مجتبی میرزاده; March 18, 1946 – July 17, 2005) was an Iranian – Kurdish violin, kamancheh, and setar master who was influential in Persian classical music, classical and folk Kurdish music, and also in Iranian pop music. He played, composed, and arranged music for many Kurdish and Iranian singers, including Hasan Zirak, Mazhar Khaleqi, Hayedeh, Moein, Nader Golchin, Shahram Nazeri, Shahab Jezayeri, Googoosh, Mohammad-Reza Shajarian, Dariush Eghbali, Homeyra, Golpa, Alireza Eftekhari and Reza Saqaee. He was known in the music community as "the genius". Iranian classical and pop composer Sadeq Nojooki says that Mirzadeh was the greatest musician he had ever seen. He was also the composer for many films.