Morteza Hannaneh (March 3,1923 – October 16, 1989) was a composer, musician, and film scorer. He started playing flute when he was eight years old and later studied horn at the Tehran Conservatory of Music. In the early 1930s, he began writing music for films and his first significant work was the score for the four-part documentary Irān sarzamīn-i talā-yi sīyāh (Iran, Land of Black Gold, 1948). In the 1950s, Hannaneh received a scholarship to study at the Vatican Institute for Music. He also gained experience in film scoring at the Cinecittà film studio in Rome, Italy. After returning to Iran in 1962, he founded the Farabi Orchestra at Radio Tehran. He served as the orchestra’s conductor for many years and composed music for several feature films, television series and documentaries, such as Lizzat-i Gunāh (The Pleasure of Sin, 1964) and Tappah-hāy-i Mārlīk (The Hills of Marlik, 1963). Hannaneh also composed music for several films in the 1950s, including Samad va Fūlād Zirah-yi Dīv (Samad and Foolad Zereh, the Ogre, 1972), Farār az Talah (Escape from the Trap, 1971), and Rāz-i Dirakht-i Sinjid (The Secret of the Oleaster Tree, 1972). He is mostly known for the music of the TV series Hezardastan (1988), which he wrote in seven parts and is based on a prelude to Bayāt-i Isfahān composed by Morteza Neydavoud. The music is considered his most popular work and captures the atmosphere of Tehran in the 1920s.