Maestro Niyazi, who was born on August 20, 1912 in Tbilisi in the family of the famous composer of his time Zulfugar Hajibayli (Uzeyir Hajibayli’s brother, also a famous composer), is originally from Shusha. He is an author of "Khosrov and Shirin" opera (1942), "Zagatala suite" (1934), "Return" (1939)