Ismagilov Zagir Garipovich: biography, creativity

Composer Zagir Ismagilov is a famous musician, an outstanding professor, winner of numerous awards, the first rector of the State Institute of Arts of Ufa. This is a person whose name is a symbol of the formation and development of art in Bashkiria, and works - a significant part of the gold fund of the republican musical culture.

Biography of Zagir Ismagilov briefly

The biography of such a significant personality took its origin in Orenburg province, a small village of Verkhny Sermenovo. Ismagilov Zagir was born on January 8, 1917 in the family of a hereditary logger, grew up in an atmosphere of heavy agricultural labor, incredibly beautiful nature and music - an endless source of beauty and peace of mind. At the age of eight he learned how to play the kurai and after a while became the best kurai player in his district.

Continuing the family traditions, he entered the forestry technical school in Inze village, after which he settled down to work in the organization "Beloretsky Lespromkhoz".

The beginning of the creative path

A chance meeting with Arslan Mubaryakov, a famous actor who came to Beloretsk on tour together with the Bashkir theater, abruptly turned the life of the young man: he was offered to work as a kurista in the play. Zagir's debut turned out to be successful, and the young man received an invitation to study at a theater studio. It was here that the failed lumberjack learned all the subtleties of acting, performed with concerts, participated in performances. On the advice of colleagues who felt great creative potential in him, Zagir, 20, entered the Bashkir studio, which opened at the Moscow Conservatory. Ignorance of music notation was more than compensated by musicality, improvisational gift and excellent hearing of the Bashkir nugget. It was at this time that Ismagilov began to write his first works and to process folk melodies.

During the war (1941-1945), Ismagilov Zagir Garipovich lived and worked in Ufa, took part in the front-line concerts and wrote songs on the patriotic themes: "The Last Letter", "The Song of the Heroes", "The March of the Bashkir Batyrs", "Shaimuratov General "," Song of Kusimov "," General Belov ". After the release of the song "Fly, My Bay", the whole country began talking about the Bashkir composer.

Diploma thesis "Salavat Yulaev"

1948 for Zagir was marked by the end of the Bashkir national studio and admission to the Moscow State Conservatory for the main course. It was a period of fruitful and productive activity: Zagir wrote plays for violin, piano, clarinet, and in the summer of 1954, as an thesis, he presented the commission that had examined him, making him famous - Salavat Yulaev, which he brilliantly defended. The premiere of the work took place in April 1955 and became a grandiose event in the musical life of Ufa and Bashkiria as a whole. Ismagilov Zagir Garipovich was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In the opera, the central figure of which is the national hero Salavat Yulaev, the composer skillfully used folk songs from Russia and Bashkiria, and also applied choral scenes, arias, ensembles, orchestral episodes.

Creativity of Zagir Ismagilov

The musical creativity of the composer made a great contribution to the cultural life of Bashkortostan; On the poems of countrymen poets, the author wrote a large number of songs. The subject of works is closely connected with nature, as well as the life of the Motherland and the Bashkir people.

In 1959, the musical comedy "Kodasa" was written, which shows the opposition of the residents of the Bashkir village of the 1930s in upholding the old way of life and introducing a new trend of the times, as well as combating prejudice that took place in the minds of people and broke stereotypes. As a background for the fascinating plot composer Ismagilov Zagir used poetic pictures of nature, skilfully showed the characters of the main characters.

During this period, successful study in the studio, the end of the composer's faculty of the conservatory and appointment in 1958 to the post of chairman of the Union of Composers of Bashkiria, in which Ismagilov Zagir was adopted in 1943, remained behind. Then his life path closely merged with the State Art Institute of Ufa, where Ismagilov became the first rector. In this position he stayed for about 20 years, worked for three decades as a composition teacher.

Contribution of Zagir Ismagilov

A huge contribution Zagir Ismagilov, whose biography is a vivid example of dedication, perseverance and ability to achieve the goal, contributed to the development of music: instrumental, choral, opera and chamber-vocal. In his work he tried to adhere to the values of Russian classics: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Alexander Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky. The composer's works were performed in the territory of the Soviet Union and abroad (Romania, China, Bulgaria, North Korea, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia), but wide popularity Ismagilov received thanks to his operas. The opera "Shaura" (1963), written after "Salavat Yulaev", tells of the tragic and broken fate of Shaura - an unhappy Bashkir woman who strove for happiness and failed to achieve it in a society with his rigid and soulless laws of Sharia. The bright coloring and expressiveness of music is given to the melodies of folk Bashkir songs, which the composer used competently in his work.

Merits and achievements of Zagir Garipovich

1982 for small Bashkiria was marked by celebrating the 425th anniversary of reunification with the Russian state. On such a memorable date Zagir Garipovich Ismagilov timed the opera "Ambassadors of the Urals", the main hero of which was shown by the people: at the beginning of the work humiliated and offended, and in the happy ending - exultant and triumphant. The main motive in the opera that brought the composer the title of People's Artist of the USSR was the song "Ural".

Zagir Garipovich also tried his hand at instrumental music and became the author of several plays in this genre: "Festive Overture" for a large symphony orchestra, the ballet "Shonkar", a concert for pianoforte and orchestra. This is one of the leading musicians, cherished the customs of a beautiful Russian romance and understood the value of a song of domestic character.

His work was successfully combined with active work of the Bashkir author, he was a deputy of several convocations of the republican Supreme Soviet, and then his chairman.

In memory of the great composer

The great plowman of the music world - Zagir Garipovich Ismagilov is loved and honored by listeners of several generations, and his diverse work is a vivid example for young composers. Zagir Garipovich died on May 30, 2003 at the 87th year of his life, his ashes rest on the Mohammedan cemetery.

The name of Ismagilov is one of the streets of Ufa, a house museum operates in his native village, and a monument is erected in the park near the Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater . The name of Ismagilov Zagir Garipovich is worn by the State Academy of Arts of Ufa. The memory of the great Bashkir composer is forever immortalized in his outstanding works.