Andre's mother was a Persian woman from Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) and his father was an Azeri merchant, originally from the Caucasus. Aminollah Hossein lived for a few years in Persia (Iran) before he left the country for his academic studies.
Life and Education
His son, Robert Hossein, has written that André Hossein studied in Moscow, Russia and later in Germany where he attended a music academy in Stuttgart and the Berlin Conservatory from 1934 to 1937. His fascination with pre-Islamic Persia led him to c ...
