Tofig Guliyev
| Tofig Guliyev | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 7, 1917 |
| Origin |
 Bilgəh, Baku, Azerbaijan
|
| Died | October 4, 2000 (aged 82) |
| Genres | composition, symphonic composition |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
Tofig Alakbar oglu Guliyev (Azerbaijani: Tofiq Ələkbər oğlu Quliyev,Turkish: Tevfik Elekber oğlu Guliyev; November 7, 1917, Baku, Russian SFSR - October 4, 2000, Baku, Azerbaijan) – Azerbaijani composer, pianist, conductor, People's Artist of the USSR.
Tofig Guliyev was born on November 7, 1917, Bilgəh in Baku, in the family of salary worker. He became a student of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire when he was 12 years old due to his musical talent. But in 1934, he became a student of Baku Conservatoire, where he studied in two faculties - fortepiano (in professor I.S.Aysberg’s class) and composer (in professor S.G.Strasser’s class). In the conservatoire young Tofig Guliyev familiarized with works of great classics of the past – Bach, Beethoven, Tschaikovsky, Schubert and other composers. The brilliant talent of Tofig Guliyev drew music communities’ attention to him and soon, in 1936, Azerbaijan’s National Committee of Education sent Tofig Guliyev to Moscow State Conservatory named after Tschaikovsky on Uzeyir Hajibeyov’s advice and initiative. There he learnt conduct and for some time studied in fortepiano class of professor Neyhauz. Soon he began to work as a pianist at well-known Estrada orchestra of those times under A.Zfasmann’s guidance, where he successfully worked till 1939.
Tofig Guliyev’s first experiences on poems began in the beginning of the 1930s. In 1931, being the student at the Asaf Zeynally Music School in Baku, Tofig Guliyev wrote a song to Mirza Alakbar Sabir’s poem – “About a schoolboy” according to his teacher’s advice. Beginning from 1935, Tofig Guliyev began to work as a conductor at Azerbaijan Drama Theatre named after Meshadi Azizbekov. Tofig Guliyev’s activity as folklorist, which was begun in the 1930s had a great importance not only in creative biography of the composer, but also in musical-social life of Azerbaijan. Tofig Guliyev was one of the creative personalities, who had great services to development and popularization of Azerbaijani folklore. He is one of the first composers of Azerbaijan, who accomplished note records of mugham. In 1936, mugham recordings “Rast”, “Segah”, “Zabul”, “Dugah” were released by him (jointly with composer Z. Bagirov).
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