Ruhollah Khaleghi

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Ruhollah Khaleghi is buried in Darband, Shemiran, Tehran.

Ruhollah Khaleghi (1906 – November 12, 1965) was a prominent Iranian musician from Kerman, Iran.

Rouhollah Khaleghi was born in 1906 in a musically minded family. He first became acquainted with the tar, but later started to learn to play the violin. As soon as Alinaqi Vaziri established his School of Music, Khaleghi left school and joined Vaziri's school, where he studied for eight years. Soon he became his master's assistant and was placed in charge of teaching music theory. He later continued his education and obtained a B.A. degree in Persian Language and Literature from Tehran University.

In 1944 Khaleghi established the National Music Society and in 1949, thanks to the efforts of this great artist, the School of National Music was founded. After his first journey to the former U.S.S.R. in 1955, he became involved in the Iran-Soviet Society and was selected as a member of its Board of Directors.

He also began to serve as the director of the Payam-e-Novin Magazine. His work, The History of Persian Music, which was published in two volumes, took shape during these years. His other published works include: Harmony of Western Music, Theory of estern Music, and Theory of Persian Music.

For many years Khaleghi worked as a musical advisor for Radio Iran and was one of the founders of the program known as Golha. He also conducted the Golha Orchestra, for which he composed many pieces and revised the original compositions of his contemporaries as well as older masters, such as Aref and Sheyda. Although revised, the compositions retained all their original characteristics.

Khaleghi's compositions are not limited to what he wrote for Golha. In addition to such masterpieces as Mey-e-Nab (Pure Wine), Ah-e Sahar (Sigh of Dawn), Hala Chera (Why Now?), and Chang-e-Rudaki (Rudaki's Harp), he composed many other lyrical pieces and hymns, which were mostly patriotic. These include such works as Ey Iran and the Hymn for Azarbaijan. Khaleghi established The National Music Society of Iran and National School of Music in 1949 in Tehran.

He died in 1965 in Salzburg, Austria and was buried in Zahir o-dowleh cemetery, Darband, Tehran.