Parviz Mansouri

Parviz Mansouri (, March 13, 1925 – December 16, 2011) was a teacher of music theory and music critic. His book Fundamental Theory of Music is his most famous work, which was selected as the "Book of the Year" in Iran in 1992.

Biography Parviz Mansouri was born in 1925 in Hamedan. He completed his primary and secondary education in Tehran, and due to his father's transfer to Isfahan, he spent the last two years of high school in that city. On his return to Tehran in 1948, he first enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine and then in the field of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science. Eventually, however, his growing interest in music led him to the Higher Conservatory of Music (Tehran Conservatory). Parviz Mansouri was accepted into the violin class and left those two academic fields forever.

At that time, two Iranian musicians, Hossein Nasehi and Samin Baghcheban, who had returned from a study trip to Ankara, founded composing for the first time at the conservatory. Parviz Mansouri then changed his field of study and studied composition with Hossein Nasehi. Mansouri's talent was such that Nasehi entered the field of composition without holding an entrance exam.

He compiled and published some of the conservatory textbooks. Parviz Mansouri, both in the field of translating and writing music books, has been one of the first and most serious authors in this field in Persian.