Suffering from the Alzheimer's disease, it has been some years that Hossein Dehlavi is home-nursed by his wife and during the period, many musicians have expressed their gratitude over the maestro’s life-long contribution to Persian Music.
Born in 1927 in Tehran, Dehlavi, who was the principal conductor of the Persian Fine Arts Administration Orchestra between 1957 and 1967, has trained many of great musicians who are today among the best including Ali Rahbari, Kambiz Roshanravan and late Esmaeel Tehrani.
For ten years, Dehlavi was the director and professor at the Persian National Music Conservatory in Tehran, and in 1992, with the cooperation of nearly 70 players of Persian instruments, Dehlavi established the Plectrum Orchestra.
His works include several pieces for Persian instruments and orchestra, vocal and orchestra, choir and orchestra, and three operas. As his contribution to the Year of the Child (1979), he wrote an opera for children called “Mana & Mani,” which has never been performed.
Among his pupils is his wife Sousan Aslani who herself is a virtuoso Santour player and feels great debt to her husband and teacher.
To pay homage to her husband Aslani is nowadays busy with preliminary procedures needed to open a conservatoire in Tehran as Dehlavi Academy of Music.
Along with teaching many musicians and raising three children, Aslani has recorded many works. Khojasteh, Bouye Parcheen, Negahe Gomshodeh, Raghse Bahar, and Avaze Esfehan are among recorded albums of Aslani.