Hafez in Persian Music
Many Persian composers have composed pieces inspired by Hafez's poems or on his poems. Many Persian singers have also performed Hafez poems. Among them Mohsen Namjoo composed music and vocals on several poems of Hafez such as Zolf, Del Miravad, Nameh and others and Hayedeh (the song Padeshah-e Khooban, music by Farid Zoland) and Mohammad-Reza Shajarian (the song Del Miravad Ze Dastam, music by Parviz Meshkatian). The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski has also composed The Love Songs of Hafiz on German translation of Hafez poems.
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