Qara Qarayev

Qara Qarayev (Azerbaijani postage stamp 1998)

Qara Qarayev Əbülfəz oğlu ( Russian Кара Абульфазович Караев / Kara Abulfasowitsch Karajew * January 23 ^jul. / 5. February  1918 ^greg. In Baku ; †  13. May 1982 in Moscow ) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani composer .

Life

Qarayev was born in Baku as the son of the doctor Əbülfəz Fər Qc oğlu Qarayev . His mother was very interested in music. He studied from 1935 to 1938 with Üzeyir Hacıbəyov and Leonid Rudolf at the Baku Conservatory and then at the Moscow Conservatory with Dmitri Shostakovich . In 1938 his first major piece, Pesnja serdza (Russian Песня сердца; roughly "Song of the Heart"), a setting of a poem by Rəsul Rza , premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow .

In 1941 Qarayev took over the management of the Baku Philharmonic . From 1949 to 1953 he was head of the city's conservatory , where he later, from 1959, worked as a professor. Among his students the composer Rauf Hajiyev , Arif Məlikov , Vasif Adıgözəlov , Xəyyam Mirzəzadə , Sevda Ibrahimova , Afaq Cəfərova , Nərgiz Şəfiyeva , Firəngiz Əlizadə , Ismayil Hacıbəyov , Elnarə Dadaşova , Rəhilə Həsənova and Arif Mirzoyev . His son Fərəc Qarayev is also a successful composer.

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Qarayev created two operas , two ballets ( Seven Beauties and The Path of Thunder ), three symphonies and two symphonic poems, the Albanian Rhapsody , symphonic engravings , choreographic images , a musical image , a piano concerto, string quartets and other chamber music works, two cantatas , Songs and film music (including Goya - or the evil path of knowledge , Don Quixote ).

Honors (selection)

• Stalin Prize 1946, 1948
• People's Artist of the USSR 1959
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor 1961
• Lenin Prize 1967
• Order of Lenin 1967, 1978
• Order of the October Revolution 1971
• Hero of Socialist Labor 1978

aftermath

The Qara Qarayev Festival for Contemporary Music has been taking place in Baku since 2011 .

literature

• Boris Yoffe : In the flow of the symphonic . Wolke, Hofheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-95593-059-2 , pp. 592 f .

Web links

• Catalog raisonné by Onno van Rijen
• Sheet music and audio files by Qara Qarayev in the International Music Score Library Project
• Qara Qarayev in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Firängiz Älizadä:  Qarayev, Qara Äbülfäz oğlu. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 13 (Paladilhe - Ribera). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1133-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
2. ↑ biography on kino-teatr.ru
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Qara Əbülfəz oğlu Qarayev - biography. Retrieved April 6, 2018 (Russian). 
4. ↑ The cellist knocks on Morse code in FAZ of May 4, 2013, page 34.