Javad Maroufi was born in Tehran to the musician father Mousa Maroufi and mother Ozra Maroufi (or Ezra Maroufi) who both were distinguished pupils of Darvish Khan, a renowned music master of the time in Iran. Javad Maroufi lost his mother at young age, and consequently grew up in his paternal family. He was taught in music first by his father, playing both the tar and the violin. At fourteen he attended the Academy of Music of which Ali-Naqi Vaziri was the director and where he studied the piano under the music master Tatiana Kharatian (تاتیانا خاراطیان). During this period he studied works by Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. Maroufi died in the morning of Tuesday 7 December 1993 (16 Azar 1372 AH) in a hospital in Tehran.
