People’s Artist of the USSR Murad Kazhlaev has died – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

This was announced by the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Dagestan, Zarema Butaeva, on her official Telegram channel.

“In the 93rd year, our beloved teacher, People’s Artist of the USSR, Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Soviet and Russian composer, conductor, teacher and public figure Murad Magomedovich Kazhlaev passed away “, wrote .

The minister recalled that an entire era of academic musical culture is associated with the name of Murad Kazhlaev.

And the composer’s works, created in a variety of genres, including those in which he was an innovator, were included in the golden fund not only of Dagestan, but also of national and world music in general.

“The bright memory of the great composer will remain in the hearts of everyone who knew him, worked with him, in the hearts of all admirers of his work,” Butaeva concluded.

The farewell ceremony and funeral of the People’s Artist of the USSR will take place tomorrow, December 24, at 12:00 in Makhachkala, at the cemetery at 64 Tankaeva Street.

Murad Kazhlaev was born on January 15, 1931 in Baku. He studied piano at the music school of the Baku Conservatory, in the group of “children with absolute pitch.” In 1955 he graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory. He taught at the Tchaikovsky Music School in Makhachkala, worked as chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic.

In 1965, he became the founder and leader of the vocal and instrumental ensemble “Gunib” (later known as “Gaya”), one of the brightest Soviet VIAs.

Kazhlaev is the author of ballets, musicals and operettas, orchestral and jazz works, and music for dozens of films. Among other things, Kazhlaev wrote the music for the 1965 film “Barbos Visiting Bobik”: this is the first film adaptation of the story by Nikolai Nosov, best known for the 1977 animated adaptation.