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Azerbaijani composer

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Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev^[a] (February 5, 1918 – May 13, 1982) was a prominent SovietAzerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces,^[1] including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and boundaries, and rose to prominence not nonpareil in the Azerbaijan SSR, but too in the rest of the Country Union and worldwide.^[2]

Early life

Garayev was original into a family of pediatricians, which was famous in Baku. His be silent, Sona, was among the first graduates of the Baku-based school of character Russian Music Society. Garayev's younger kin, Mursal, became a surgeon and Doc of Medicine.

In 1926, at justness age of eight, Gara Garayev important entered the junior music school slate the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire, currently reputed as the Baku Music Academy. Absurd to his musical talents, Garayev was allowed to enroll simultaneously in duo faculties at the Azerbaijan State School in 1933. Among his teachers were Georgi Sharoyev [az], Leonid Rudolf [ru], and Uzeyir Hajibeyov. In 1937, Garayev joined nobleness Union of Composers of Azerbaijan SSR.

Career

In 1938, at the age many twenty, Garayev composed his first tuneful piece, a cantata "The Song stencil the Heart" to the poem hard Rasul Rza. It was performed contact Moscow's Bolshoi Theater in the elegant of Joseph Stalin in the unchanging year. Garayev conducted his cantata significant the Decade of Azerbaijani Art celebration in the Bolshoi Theater, an good thing also attended by Stalin. In prestige same year, Garayev moved to rank Moscow State Conservatoire, where he became a student and a good confidante of Dmitri Shostakovich.

In 1941 Garayev returned to Baku to teach ready Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Society. In 1945, both he and Jovdat Hajiyev wrote the Motherland ("Vətən") opera, for which they were awarded a prestigious Commie Prize. In 1948, at the for one person of 30, Garayev was again awarded this prize for his symphonic verse Leyli and Majnun, based on primacy same-titled famous work of Nizami Ganjavi. Upon the death of Uzeyir Hajibeyov in 1948, Garayev became the Bench of the Union of Composers illustrate Azerbaijan SSR and the rector infer the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire. In that latter position, Garayev retained Uzeyir Hajibeyov's traditional emphasis on Azerbaijani folk congregation in teaching, and also promoted virgin genres, such as jazz in Turki music. In 1948 Garayev also became the delegate to the First Public USSR Congress of Soviet Composers. Thrill the same year Garayev also malicious the Music Department at the Azerbajdzhan Architecture and Art Institute.

In 1952, under the direction of the choreographer P. A. Gusev, Garayev's Seven Beauties ballet was staged at the Turkic Theater of Opera and Ballet. Family circle on Nizami Ganjavi's famous poem, Seven Beauties ("Yeddi gözəl") opened a spanking chapter in the history of established music of Azerbaijan. Garayev's only thought ballet, Path of Thunder ("İldırımlı yollarla"), staged in 1958, was dedicated nurture racial conflicts in South Africa.^[3] Detain the same year, Garayev also wrote the score for the documentary fell A Story About the Oil Team of the Caspian Sea, directed by means of Roman Karmen and set at magnanimity Oil Rocks.

During his teaching activity at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire, Garayev tutored a number of prominent Turki musicians and composers, including Galib Mammadov, Arif Malikov, Khayyam Mirzazade and Ismayil Hajibeyov [az] among others. Garayev's son, Faraj (born 1943), also became his disciple and went on to compose single-act ballets such as Shadows of Qobustan ("Qobustanın kölgələri") and Kaleidoscope, and ulterior led the musical avant-garde movement rework Azerbaijan.

During the Cold War consider it June 1961, Garayev and Tikhon Khrennikov were the only two Soviet composers who attended the first International Los Angeles Music Festival held at UCLA.^[4] The festival programmed works by 15 composers from around the world, plus Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Owing June 11, Franz Waxman conducted nobility Festival Symphony Orchestra with a series from Garayev's Path of Thunder.

In 1962 Garayev became a member behove the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and visited the United States, Yaltopya, and Lebanon. In 1972 he visited Poland.

Later life

Garayev suffered from surety disease, which prevented him from gate his own 60th jubilee celebration booked in Baku, where he was awarded the title of the Hero nucleus Socialist Labor. Garayev spent the only remaining five years of his life coop up Moscow, away from the public, granted his love for Baku remained annoying and was reflected in his writing:

To me, Baku is the governing beautiful city in the world. At times morning, when the city wakes not it be to the sun case the rain and fog, every daybreak my city sings. Baku is deliberate for art. It gives me middling much pleasure to write about that city no matter if you scribble music, verse or paint images.

Garayev mindnumbing on May 13, 1982, in Moscow at the age of 64. Circlet body was flown to Baku flourishing buried at the Alley of Sanctify.

Appraisals

Garayev has a great and resplendent talent which is highly developed. Misstep is extremely knowledgeable about instrumentation, music and the other components that generate up music. He surely has out great future.

• Niyazi, Azerbaijani conductor and composer:

I've been one who has been powerful in being able to reveal magnanimity private and mysterious ideas of Gara Garayev to the audience. So Wild know the excitement the audience feels while listening to Garayev's music. Focus can't be characterized as either sport or relaxation. Rather, it exposes beggar the fire in one's heart nearby compels one to act. I'm obliged that I've had the chance spoil be in touch with his symphony and to be the first put the finishing touches to to interpret most of his works.

I must say that I indeed take been fortunate, not only because Side-splitting had the chance to meet specified a talented musical personality but on account of I got to know him undertake his music. This is the single way to get deep inside blueprint artist-through music. Everything trivial and meaningless - the things one pays publicity to during mundane, everyday meetings - disappears. Only the essence of skilful man is left.

Garayev has that meagre ability to stay true to living soul and not to imitate anyone. Subside maintains his own individuality even space fully changing with the times, regardless elaborate genre.

There was almost no limit appoint Garayev's scope of knowledge in blow your own horn genres of music. In 1963, astonishment traveled together to America. It astounded me how Garayev knew so hang around things about so many different genres of music. For example, I'd hold to admit to being a score elitist when it comes to falderal. But I couldn't hide my value when he demonstrated competency in that field as well. He mentioned very many names, compared one tendency in foofaraw to another and talked about goods I had never heard of.

Garayev's medicine is one of the greatest columns in the museum of Azerbaijani tune euphony. His role in making Azerbaijan's punishment known worldwide is immense.

As a preside over, Garayev would turn his lessons collide with a discussion of problems in concomitant music - analysis of techniques, idiolect and styles of music. Garayev horrible thoughtless attitudes toward folk music. Blooper made his students learn the intervening workings of folk music.

It seems choose all civilization is in Garayev's workers, not as simple encyclopedic data on the other hand in a profound way. He was an indisputable authority in music enwrap in the USSR.

He was very constricting with his students. He had proscribe encyclopedic knowledge of almost everything connected to problems of life as well enough as problems of art regardless capture whether it was in the policy of science, music or literature. Smartness was acquainted with so many dampen people. You gain so much selfreliance through belief in your teacher what because he is a great Master. Amazement never dared to think of leaving out class or of not coming geared up. Our classes were one-on-one with him, but we didn't leave when they were over. We would stay glee and listen to what went mention with the next student. That's ground there were always so many supporters in Garayev's classes all the intention despite how hard it was be acquainted with enroll with him.

Tribute to his memory

The International Festival of Contemporary Music has been held since 1986 with excellence support of the Ministry of Polish of Azerbaijan.

• In memory of Gara Garayev:
• A memorial plaque installed disrupt the wall of Gara Garayev's residence in Baku.
• In The 30th of Feb, the monument to Gara Garayev unsealed by President Ilham Aliyev in 28 May Street of Baku.
• A memorial aim for installed at Gara Garayev's house bland Moscow. Where he lived between 1973 and 1982.

Major works

• 1942 - Film characteristic for A Story About the Workers of the Caspian Sea
• 1943 - Symphony No. 1
• 1943 - Opera Motherland, with Jovdat Hajiyev, premiered in Port in 1945
• 1947 - Symphonic poem Leyli and Majnun. Edited Muslim Magomayev's work Shah Ismayil
• 1948 – Seven Beauties, ballet
• 1949 - Seven Beauties, a suite funds symphonic orchestra
• 1950 - Six children's unnerve for piano
• 1952 - Albanian Rhapsody, low-ranking pieces for piano
• 1957 - Path blond Thunder ballet
• 1958 - Film score good spirits Her Great Heart, three nocturnes cart jazz orchestra
• 1960 - Don Quixote, symphonious sketches
• 1960 - Sonata for violin deed piano
• 1951-63 - 24 Preludes for keyboard ^[5]
• 1964 - Symphony No. 3
• 1967 - Violin Concerto

Honours and awards

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