Nasib Gajasowitsch Schiganow

Nasib Gajasowitsch Schiganow ( Russian Назиб Гаязович Жиганов ; Tatar Нәҗип Гаяз улы Җиһанов / Näcip Ğayaz Uli Cihanov ; Najip Jihanov , Nazib Gayazovich Zhiganov ; born January 2 ^{. Jul} / 15. January  1911 ^greg. In Uralsk , † 2. June 1988 ) was a Tatar composer .

Life

Schiganow learned to play the piano autodidactically and from 1928 attended the Kazan Conservatory . Until 1935 studied in Moscow with Heinrich Litinski . In 1938 he was appointed director of the Tartar Opera Theater and Ballet, which opened with his diploma thesis , the opera Katschkyn (The Flight). He also taught at the Kazan Conservatory, which he had been director since 1945 and where he had been professor since 1953.

He composed a. a. eight operas based on Tatar texts, two ballets, fifteen symphonies and one symphonic poem, a Tatar suite and an orchestral overture, a string quartet , piano works, songs and film scores.

Schiganow is considered to be the founder of an independent Tatar music. He was awarded the State Prize of the Soviet Union three times (1948, 1950 and 1970), received the title Artist of the People in 1948, the Lenin Prize in 1970 and became a hero of socialist work in 1981 . In 2000 the Kazan Conservatory was named after him.

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• ЖИГАНОВ НАЗИБ ГАЯЗОВИЧ (1911-1988)