Ağabacı Rzayeva

Ağabacı İsmayıl qızı Rzayeva (also Aghabajy Rzai̐eva _; born December 15, 1912 in Baku , Russian Empire ; † July 5, 1975 ; in Baku, Azerbaijani SSR , Soviet Union ) was a Soviet-Azerbaijani composer , music teacher and politician.

Life

Ağabacı Rzayeva's father, İsmayıl Rzayev, was an accomplished tarplayer despite being an economist. His father, Ağabacı Rzayevas grandfather, was the Azerbaijani musician Mirzə Fərəc Rzayev (1847–1927). He was a prominent player of the tar string instrument and a representative of the Mugham School in Baku. Ağabacı Rzayeva learned the basics of this Azerbaijani art form from her grandfather. Before she was allowed to deal professionally with music, she first had to study at the Pedagogical Technical Center in Baku after finishing secondary school. After graduating in 1929 at the age of seventeen, she first worked as a teacher in the villages of Saray, Kürdəxanı and Maştağa in the outskirts of Baku. She founded a choir and accompanied it on the Tar. When a local radio station was founded in Maştağa, music was also broadcast at her instigation. Outside of school, she also taught reading and writing to help eradicate local illiteracy . A little later she was transferred to a school in Baku itself. After the death of her grandfather, her father İsmayıl also increased the musical education of his children Ağabacı and Ruqiyyə. The Azerbaijani composer and head of the Azerbaijan State Conservatory uzeyir hajibeyov , a family friend, was aware of the talent of the sisters and gave them in 1934 in the newly established Department of Folk Music places, Ağabacı in class for Kamancheh . She was now taught by Səid Rustəmov and the art of Mugham by Mirzə Mansur Mansurov (1887–1967), a student of her grandfather. Əfrasiyab Bədəlbəyli , Cövdət Hacıyev and Üzeyir Hacıbəyov taught them the music theory subjects. In 1935 she took Hacıbəyov into the first tar group of the orchestra for folk instruments he founded. At that time, she began teaching at a music school in Baku. In 1938 she took part with the Folk Instrument Orchestra in the Decade of Azerbaijani Culture in Moscow . After composing the Gənc vətənpərvərlər [Young Patriots] march for the Azerbaijani Folk Instrument Orchestra . In 1941 she was accepted as the first woman in a composition class at the Conservatory, first with Üzeyir Hacıbəyov, later in the composition class of Qaya Qarayev . In 1942 she was accepted into the Azərbaycan Bəstəkarlar İttifaqı [Azerbaijan Composers Association]. In 1950, 1953 and 1955 she was elected to the Baku Soviet . In 1963 she was a member of the Supreme Soviet there . The Ağabacı Rzayeva was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR in 1960 . On her sixtieth birthday, she was awarded the Soviet Union Medal of Honor . She was also awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Azerbaijani SSR.

Works (selection)

Ağabacı Rzayeva wrote many songs. These include: Yaxası güllü qız (text: Hüseyn Abbaszadə (1922–2007)), Dünyanın gözəlliyi [The Beauty of the World] (text: Əhməd Cəmil (1913–1977)), Əsiriyəm bir dilbərin (Mirzə Fətəli Axundov (1812–1878 )), Gözləyirəm, sevgilim! [Wait, my darling] (Text: Cəfər Xəndan (1910–1961)) and Qırmızı şar (Text: Cahangir Məmmədov). She wrote an operetta Höcət eləmə [don't you know?].

She also composed the Şənlik suite , the pieces Rəqs, Yallı and CəngiI for orchestra.

Web links

• Ağabacı Rzayeva at https://sozmusiqi.wordpress.com (list of works with selected song texts and photography, Azerbaijani)
• Ağabacı Rzayeva at the Baku Music Academy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Fəttah Xaliqzadə: Azərbaycanin ilk qadin Bəstəkari. In: http://www.musigi-dunya.az . Musigi dyniasi magazine, accessed November 27, 2019 (Azerbaijani). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Həcər Babayeva: Nəğmələrdə yaşayan ömur- Ağabacı Rzayeva - 100. In: https://525.az . 525.az, December 25, 2012, accessed November 26, 2019 (Azerbaijani).