Niyazi Tagizade was born on August 20, 1912 in Tiflis, Russian Empire [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a composer and writer, known for Handelsmann aus Liebe (1945), Rustam i Sukhrab (1972) and Vostochnaya plutovka (1989). He died on August 2, 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR.
