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Hajibeyov (Hajibeyli) Uzeyir Abdulhuseyn oglu ( 1885 - 1948 ) was an Azerbaijan i Composer , Conductor , Scientist , Publicist , Playwright , Teacher , Translator and social figure. He was the creator of the first Opera s and Operetta s in the East. He was a People's Artist of the USSR ( 1938 ), academician of the Academy Of Sciences Of Azerbaijan ( 1945 ), professor (1940), Stalin Prize -winner ( 1941 - 1946 ), the chairman of the Composers' Union of Azerbaijan (1938-1948), rector of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire (1928-1929; 1939-1948), director of the Art Institute of A. S. of Azerbaijan (1945-1948). Uzeyir Hajibeyov was born in Karabakh , a land of famous poets and writers, artists, composers and performers. He was born on the 18th of September, 1885, in Azerbaijan district Shusha region in the family of copyist. His childhood and youth were spent in one of the most beautiful nooks of Azerbaijan, in ancient town of Shusha. Shusha is called the conservatory of the East, it is the land of talents, the land of musicians. His first education he got in religious school ( Medrese ), where he perfected Arabic and Farsi . Then he studied in two-year Russian-Azerbaijan school. Here, due to his favorite teacher Mirza Mekhti Hasanzadeh, he got acquainted with the creative activity of the famous writers of the East and the West. The richness of the musical-performance tradition of Shusha influenced greatly the musical education of Uzeyir Hajibeyov. Uzeyir bek wrote: "The first musical education I got in my childhood in Shusha, from the best singers and saz -players. At that time I sang mughams and tesnifs. Singers liked my voice. They made me sing and taught at the same time." The first teacher of Uzeyir Hajibeyov was his uncle Agalar bek Aliverdibeyov, the excellent connoisseur of Azerbaijan people's music. And the first literary debut of Uzeyir Hajibeyov was in Shusha, when he was 13 he wrote a book of fairy-tales and short stories. It is called "Kitabi-mezheke" ("A book of jokes"), and he illustrated his book himself. "Kitabi-mezheke" was read by his friends. When Uzeyir Hajibeyov was 13, in 1897-1898 in Shusha the scene "Medjnun on Leyla's grave" was staged under the leadership of A. Akhverdiyev and D. Karyagdy oglu in the performance of actors-amateurs. Uzeyir sang in the choir. |
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