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Murad Kazhlayev

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Murad Kazhlayev
Мурад Кажлаев
Kazhlayev in 1993
Background information
Born(1931-01-15)15 January 1931
Baku, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Azerbaijan)
Died23 December 2023(2023-12-23) (aged 92)
Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
GenresClassical
Occupations

Murad Magomedovich Kazhlayev[a] (15 January 1931 – 23 December 2023) was a Russian and Lak composer and conductor.[1] He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1981), People's Artist of the Republic of Dagestan [ru] (2016), and laureate of international premiums and contests. He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev [ru], a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.[2]

Biography

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Murad Kajlayev was born on 15 January 1931 in Baku to a Lak family.[3] He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from the composition class of Boris Zeidman [ru].[4] He was expelled from there for his ardour for practicing non-academic musical genres but soon he was reclaimed. He worked as a teacher at a musical school named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as a chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphonic Orchestra (1957–1958), artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic Hall (1963–1964) and secretary of administration of the Union of Soviet Composers (from 1968).[1] Kajlayev died on 23 December 2023, at the age of 92.[5]

Notes

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    • Russian: Мурад Магомедович Кажлаев, romanizedMurad Magomedovich Kazhlayev
    • Azerbaijani: Murad Maqomedoviç Kajlayev

References

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  1. ^ a b "Кажлаев Мурад". newmuz.narod.ru.
  2. ^ "Кажлаев Мурад Магомедович — Кто есть кто в культуре — Яндекс.Словари".
  3. ^ Мурад Магомедович КАЖЛАЕВ. biograph.ru
  4. ^ "Школа Мурада Кажлаева встречала гостей Международного фестиваля "Эта песня твоя и моя"". Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  5. ^ На 93-м году жизни ушёл из жизни народный артист СССР Мурад Кажлаев (in Russian)
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