Ey Iran...

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Ey Iran briefly had the de-facto national anthem status. It was unofficially used during Pahlavi era. All students thaught this song at school. In the transitional period between the time of the Shah's departure (February, 1979) until the adoption of the non-Iranian theme, used by Islamic Republic as national anthem. This patriotic anthem found its way into the heart and soul of the people. The lyrics were written by Hossein Gol-e-Golab in 1946, the music was composed by Ruhollah Khaleghi, and it was first performed by Gholam Hossein Banan. Gol-e-Golab was inspired to write the song by patriotism. He has been quoted to have said: "In 1944, the footsteps of the invading armies in the streets were enough to rattle any patriot and inspired me to write this anthem".

Dr. Hossein Gol-e-Golab(1897 - 1985)

Gol-e-Golab was born in Tehran, and studied at the Elmiya School and Darolfonoon. He learned to play both the setar and tar as a boy. He taught at Dar al-Forum and later enrolled at the law school there, earning degrees in law and political science in 1922. However, he displayed a great talent for the natural sciences, especially botany, and in 1928 was tenured at the school of medicine. This later became the Faculty of Medicine at the emerging University of Tehran.

Gol-e-Golab never lost his interest in music, finding time to translate Western operas into his native Persian while teaching and writing on botany and serving on the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, to which he was appointed 1935.

In 1944, after witnessing an ugly incident where an American soldier serving on the Persian Corridor beat up a native Iranian greengrocer, Gol-e-Golab composed the poem Ey Iran, which was set to music by Rouhollah Khaleghi and soon be came a de facto Iranian national anthem.

Ruhollah Khaleghi

Rouhollah Khaleghi was born in 1906 in a musically minded family in Kerman. He first became acquainted with the tar, but later started to learn to play the violin. As soon as Ali-Naqi 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 University of Tehran.

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 Iranian Music, which was published in two volumes, took shape during these years. His other published works include: Harmony of Western Music, Theory of Eastern Music, and Theory of Persian Music.

Gravestone of Rouhollah Khaleghi in Zahir o-dowleh cemetery, Darband, Shemiran, Tehran.For many years Khaleghi worked as a musical advisor for Radio Iran and was one of the founders of the program known as Golha (Flowers). He also conducted the Gol'hā Orchestra, for which he composed many pieces and revised the original compositions of his contemporaries as well as older masters, such as Āref and Sheydā. 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 at Dawn), Hālā Cherā (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 (see Gholam-Hossein Banan) 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.

Gholam Hossein Banan

He was born into a musical family. His father, Karim Khan Banan ol-Douleh Nuri, was a musician (and calligrapher), and his mother, daughter of Prince Mohammad Taqi Mirza Rokni, known as Rokn ol-Douleh (son of Mohammad Shah Qajar and brother of Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar), was a reputed pianist; one brother and two sisters also played the tar as pupils of the renowned musician Morteza Neydavood

From the age of six Gholam-Hossein Banan began to take lessons in singing and playing the piano and organ through encouragements of Morteza Neydāvood who was quick in recognising him as musically talented. Gholam-Hossein's first teachers were his parents. He subsequently studied with Mirza Taher Zia oz-Zakerin Rasaي and Nāser Seif. Ali-Naqi Vaziri later introduced him to the acclaimed Rouhollah Kh&aleghi.

Banan joined the Iranian National Music Association in 1942, and appeared on Iranian National Radio that same year. He then joined the orchestra of the distinguished pianist Javād Maroufi, becoming the lead vocalist.

In 1957, or 1958, (1336 AH) Banan became blind in one eye (believed to be the left eye) following a car accident. Banan died at 7 O'clock in the afternoon of Thursday 27 February 1986 (8 Esfand 1364 AH) in Iranmehr Hospital in Gholhak, Tehran. He is much remembered by many lovers of the traditional Persian music. Among his well-remembered songs are Ey Iran, Caravan and Elahe-ye Naz.

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(( يادی از استاد درگشته حسين گل گلاب ))
سراينده سرود جاودانی – ايران ای مرز پرگهر

اين برگ را ترک نکنيد مگر فايل صدا را در زير گوش کنيد

روح الله خالقی

.روح الله خالقی در سال 1906 در يک فاميل

موسيقی دان ديده به جهان گشود.  او ابتدا تار و بعد

ها با ستار آشنا شد و ويلون را بخوبی آموخت. پس از اينکه روح الله خالقی با استاد علی نقی وزيری آشنا شد بزودی آموزش دبستانی را رها کرد و به آموزشگاه علی نقی خان وزيری پيوست .

به زودی خالق دستيار علی نقی وزيری شد و مسئوليت آموزش موسيقی به او واگذار شد. ديرتر او به آموختن پرداخت و با درجه دکتری از مدرسه زبان و ادبيات دانشگاه تهران فارغ التحصيل شد و پايان نامه دريافت کرد.

خالقی د سال 1944 جامعه موسيقی ملی را بنيان گذاشت و در سال 1949 اين موسسه به يک آموزشگاه موسيقی ملی مبدل شد. او پس از سفر اولش به اتحاد جماهير شوروی (آنزمان) از سوی انجمن ايران و روس به عنوان عضو ارش مديريت آموزشگاه موسيقی انتخاب شد. او همچنين به عنوان مدير مسئول نشريه پيام نوين منصوب شد.

گور سنگ روح الله خالقی در گورستان ظهيرالدوله در نزديکی دربند (شميران) به عنوان زيارتگاه عاشقان موسيقی در آمده است .

روح الله خالقی رهبری ارکستر گل ها را بعهده داشت و ترانه و آهنگ های فراوانی ساخته است.

ساخته های خالقی به برنامه گلها محدود نمی شود و شاهکار موسيقی بنام "می ناب" "آه سحر" ، "چرا حالا" که بر اساس شعر رودکی ساخته شده است بی نظير می باشند.

روح الله خالقی سازنده سرود ای ايران است که بر اساس سروده استاد گل گلاب تنظيم شده است.

برای شناسائی بيشتر با سرود ای ايران به فايل زير گوش فرا بدهيد.