Firəngiz Əlizadə

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Firəngiz Əlizadə ( Russian Франгиз Али-Заде , Franghiz Ali-Zadeh , Azerbaijani Firəngiz Əliağa Qizi Əlizadə ; also Franghiz Ali-Zadeh * 28 May 1947 in Baku , Azerbaijan SSR ) is an Azerbaijani pianist and composer .

Life

Əlizadə studied piano and composition at the Baku Conservatory . From 1973 to 1976 she was an aspirant with Qara Qarayev , after which she taught music history at the conservatory until 1990. Until 1993 she was professor of contemporary music and the history of orchestral styles. From 1993 to 1996 she was choir director at the opera house in Mersin / Turkey , then lecturer for piano and music theory at the local conservatory. Until 1999 she worked again in Baku and then moved to Germany. In 2000 she was honored as a People's Artist of the Republic of Azerbaijan .

Create

In 1976 she appeared - for the first time in front of a western audience - at the music festival in Pesaro. There followed invitations and a. to Stockholm, Warsaw, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles and Mexico. In 1999 she was the first woman to take part in the Lucerne Festival as composer in residence . Performers such as Yo-Yo Ma , Kronos Quartet and Mstislaw Rostropowitsch performed their works. As a pianist, she campaigns for composers from the former Soviet Union such as Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina as well as for the Second Viennese School around Arnold Schönberg and for representatives of the western avant-garde such as John Cage , George Crumb and Olivier Messiaen .

Works

  • Piano sonata in memoriam Alban Berg , 1970
  • Habil-sajahi for violoncello and prepared piano, 1979
  • Music for Piano , 1987
  • Dilogie II for wind quintet and string quartet, 1989–94
  • Mugam-sajahi for string quartet with percussion instruments, 1993
  • Journey to Immortality for baritone, mixed chamber choir, ensemble and tape based on poems by Nazim Hikmet , 1995–99
  • Mirage for tar and chamber orchestra, 1998
  • Dervish , 2000
  • Apsheron-Quintet for piano quintet, 2001
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra , 2002
  • Concerto for marimba and string orchestra , 2002
  • Nağıllar , 2002
  • Schüschtar, Metamorphosen for 12 violoncellos , 2002
  • Aşk havası , for cello solo, 2003
  • Sabah for violin, violoncello, pipa and prepared piano, 2003
  • Counteractions (Yanar dað) , 2003
  • Homage , orchestral piece, 2004
  • Zikr , 2004
  • Impromptus , piano trio, 2004

Fonts

  • About creativity. Lecture at the International Symposium 2002 in Zermatt , in MusikTexte 100, February 2004, 98–100.

Secondary literature

  • Ulrike Patow: Meditation and Ecstasy. Portrait of the Azerbaijani composer and pianist Frangis Ali-sade . In: MusikTexte . No. 100 , February 2004, ISSN  0178-8884 , p. 91-97 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography and catalog raisonné at: Sikorski , as of May 14, 2018
  2. ↑ resume on ali-sade.narod
personal data
SURNAME Əlizadə, Firəngiz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ali-Sade, Frangis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet and Azerbaijani pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Baku