Baku Music Academy

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The Baku Music Academy (officially Hacıbəyov Baku Music Academy ; Azerbaijani : Hacıbəyov adına Bakı Musiqi Akademiyası ) is a conservatory in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku . It is considered the most prestigious musical training facility in the country and is located on the site of the Armenian St. Thaddäus and Bartholomäus Cathedral, which was destroyed in 1930 .

Structure and facilities

There are three faculties and 18 departments that offer graduates degrees for master's , aspirant and doctoral degrees . The Orient department, which is responsible for research, storage, transmission and interpretation of the orally transmitted musical traditions of Azerbaijani folk music , is particularly renowned .

The university also has a restoration workshop for musical instruments, especially historical musical instruments, which has been in operation since 1991.

history

Main hall of the music academy

The institution was founded on May 25, 1920 by the People's Commissariat for Education of the Azerbaijan SSR at the request of the founder of Azerbaijani classical music and People's Artist of the USSR , Üzeyir Hacıbəyov , as the first Azerbaijani conservatory.

In 1939 Hacıbəyov was appointed rector and was professor of music theory and harmony here until his death in 1948 . There he founded the Oriental Department, where Azerbaijani folk music was taught both traditionally orally and through European methods with notes. In 1991 the music academy was named after him.

The pianist and composer Fərhad Bədəlbəyli has been the acting rector since 1991 .

Concert hall

Concert in the great hall

In the large hall there is an organ by Hermann Eule from 1964 (III / P, 37), in the organ room there is an instrument by Hermann Lahmann from Leipzig from 1961 (II / P, 10).

Graduates (selection)

The musicians and composers who have attended the university include:

See also

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Transcriptions for Organ Gara Garayev p. 5 (3) (English)
  2. ↑ Organ in the Great Concert Hall Orgeldatabase, with disposition (Dutch)
  3. ^ Demonstration of the organ for party functionaries of the GDR by Eule Foto, 1964

Coordinates: 40 ° 23 '43 "  N , 49 ° 52' 56"  E