Re: Music of the Caucasus [Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia etc.]
Posted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 8:40 am
Azerbaijan music site: Asaf Zeynalabdin oglu Zeynalli. Born 1909, Derbent : died 1932, Baku. Azerbaijan composer and teacher.
Initailly started at a local school, where he became a member of the school choir and was taught the clarinet, aften participating in the local brass band . In 1920 his family moved to Baku, and he continued his education at a military school where he learnt to play the trumpet.
In 1923, Zeynally enrolled in the newly established musical college in Baku, where he studied with Uzeyir Hajibeyov. While studying at the college, he composed his first work entitled Mahni ‘The Song’ and performed it on his trumpet, whoch aroused interest by local music experts, encouraged by Hajibeyov, Zeynally enrolled in the composer program at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire upon graduating from the musical college in 1926.
Along with writing music, Zeynally also wrote and published articles on Azeri musical culture, in which he mainly developed Hajibeyov's method of merging traditional Azeri styles with Western European classical music. In the early 1930s, he was among members who opposed the goal of the Soviet authorities to ban the tar, a stringed instrument, much used in Azerbaijan music.
From 1928, Zeynally taught at the music school linked to the conservatoire – his students included Karayev, Hajiyev and Guliyev. 1929 became the peak of the composer's activity and among his works produced that year was the romance Olkam ‘My Country’, a children's suite, Garabagh shikastasi for orchestra, and azerbaijan folk songs arranged for western instruments. In 1931, he graduated from the Conservatoire and was appointed head of the Department of Music of the Baku Turkic Labour Theatre. During that employment he wrote the music for the controversial propaganda play Sevil which toured St Petersburg successfully.
Zeynalli died in 1932 from typhus, at the age of 23.
Suite No. 1 for Children (1948)
1. Procession of Dolls
2. Child and Ice (Song)
3. Dance
4. At Play
5. The Sheep (Azerbaijan Folksong)
6. Dispute
Two Fugues [3-parts] (1951)
Chargyakh (Baku 1955)
also some romances in the vocal section.
Initailly started at a local school, where he became a member of the school choir and was taught the clarinet, aften participating in the local brass band . In 1920 his family moved to Baku, and he continued his education at a military school where he learnt to play the trumpet.
In 1923, Zeynally enrolled in the newly established musical college in Baku, where he studied with Uzeyir Hajibeyov. While studying at the college, he composed his first work entitled Mahni ‘The Song’ and performed it on his trumpet, whoch aroused interest by local music experts, encouraged by Hajibeyov, Zeynally enrolled in the composer program at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire upon graduating from the musical college in 1926.
Along with writing music, Zeynally also wrote and published articles on Azeri musical culture, in which he mainly developed Hajibeyov's method of merging traditional Azeri styles with Western European classical music. In the early 1930s, he was among members who opposed the goal of the Soviet authorities to ban the tar, a stringed instrument, much used in Azerbaijan music.
From 1928, Zeynally taught at the music school linked to the conservatoire – his students included Karayev, Hajiyev and Guliyev. 1929 became the peak of the composer's activity and among his works produced that year was the romance Olkam ‘My Country’, a children's suite, Garabagh shikastasi for orchestra, and azerbaijan folk songs arranged for western instruments. In 1931, he graduated from the Conservatoire and was appointed head of the Department of Music of the Baku Turkic Labour Theatre. During that employment he wrote the music for the controversial propaganda play Sevil which toured St Petersburg successfully.
Zeynalli died in 1932 from typhus, at the age of 23.
Suite No. 1 for Children (1948)
1. Procession of Dolls
2. Child and Ice (Song)
3. Dance
4. At Play
5. The Sheep (Azerbaijan Folksong)
6. Dispute
Two Fugues [3-parts] (1951)
Chargyakh (Baku 1955)
also some romances in the vocal section.