Aminoullah Hussein (Persian: امين الله حسين; Azerbaijani: Əminulla Hüseynov; 1905, Samarkand – 9 August 1983, Paris) was a celebrated Iranian composer of Neo-Romantic music and a tar soloist residing in France. His mother was a Persian woman from Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) and his father was a merchant, originally from Azerbaijan. Aminollah Hossein lived for a few years in Persia (Iran) before he left the country for his academic studies. Read more on Last.fm