---
name: "Hossein Alizadeh"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hossein-alizadeh"
fi1m_id: "hossein-alizadeh"
imdb_id: "nm0019745"
tmdb_id: 39405
wikidata_id: "Q348907"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "23 August 1951"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T02:46:04.821909+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hossein Alizadeh

## Identity

Hossein Alizadeh

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hossein-alizadeh
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hossein-alizadeh
- **IMDb ID:** nm0019745
- **TMDB ID:** 39405
- **Wikidata ID:** Q348907
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Alizadeh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019745/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39405

Composer. Born 23 August 1951 in Tehran.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 23 August 1951, Tehran
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein_Alizadeh, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q348907, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0019745/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39405

## Biography

Hossein Alizadeh is an Iranian composer, musician and performer on the tar and setar. Born in Tehran in 1951, he studied composition and performance at the University of Tehran and later composition and musicology at the University of Berlin.

He has composed film scores including *Gabbeh* (1996), *A Time for Drunken Horses* (2000) and *Turtles Can Fly* (2006). Alizadeh founded the Aref Ensemble, performed with the Shayda Ensemble and has received Grammy nominations for his recordings.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, worldmusiccentral.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Gabbeh* (1996), Fi1m 82, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/gabbeh.md)

## Complete filmography (17)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *When Pomegranates Howl* (2021), Music
- *Atabai* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Fight Feast* (2018), Actor
- *Endless Vision* (2014), as Compositor
- *The Queen* (2012), Sound Designer
- *The House under the Water* (2010), Actor
- *All My Mothers* (2009), Music
- *Hrant (Fırat)* (2007), Music
- *Turtles Can Fly* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *Half Moon* (2006), Original Music Composer
- *It's Winter* (2006), Music
- *Abjad* (2003), Original Music Composer
- *A Time for Drunken Horses* (2000), Original Music Composer
- *The Fair and The Ugly* (1999), Music
- *Gabbeh* (1996), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/gabbeh.md)
- *Love-Stricken* (1992), Original Music Composer
- *A Letter from Kabul* (1987), Music

## Gallery

- ![Hossein Alizadeh](https://film.one/media/person/3930613/gallery-aaca0e94fb72.jpg) Hossein Alizadeh — Ahangarha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%AF%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%87%D9%94_%D8%B4%D8%A8_%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86_%D8%B9%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_%D8%A8%D9%87_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D9%87%D9%94_%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Hosein Alizadeh in consert madrid (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/3930613/gallery-e6f051c2d9b7.jpg) Hosein Alizadeh in consert madrid (2011) — Reza1615 عكس توسط مريم معيری, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Hosein_alizadeh2.jpg/1280px-Hosein_alizadeh2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hossein Alizzadeh - Persian musician - in a concert in the Netherlands - Photo by Persian Dutch Network (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/3930613/gallery-89a72e1bb850.jpg) Hossein Alizzadeh - Persian musician - in a concert in the Netherlands - Photo by Persian Dutch Network (2016) — PersianDutchNetwork, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Hossein_Alizadeh_-_Persian_musician_2016.jpg/1280px-Hossein_Alizadeh_-_Persian_musician_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hosein alizadeh in milan consert (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/3930613/gallery-380c709e98ec.jpg) Hosein alizadeh in milan consert (2010) — Reza1615, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Alizadeh.jpg/1280px-Alizadeh.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Khalaj-alizadeh Camera location35° 41′ 46″ N, 51° 25′ 23″ E View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 35.696111; 51.423056 (2010)](https://film.one/media/person/3930613/gallery-6ddf6a3b9271.jpg) Khalaj-alizadeh Camera location35° 41′ 46″ N, 51° 25′ 23″ E View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap 35.696111; 51.423056 (2010) — Reza1615, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Khalaj-alizadeh.jpg/1280px-Khalaj-alizadeh.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hossein Alizadeh et Madjid Khaladj (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/3930613/gallery-a8d360074c25.jpg) Hossein Alizadeh et Madjid Khaladj (2009) — Photowiki62, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Alizadeh_et_Khaladj_2011.jpg/1280px-Alizadeh_et_Khaladj_2011.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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