Hasanov, Gottfried Alievich

Born April 18 ( May 1 ) 1900 in Derbent , Lezgin by nationality.

In 1926 he graduated from the Leningrad State University named after N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov , piano class at MH Barinova; in the composition class he studied with V.P. Calafati . In the same year he organized in Buinaksk ( Dagestan ) the first music school. He taught piano in Makhachkala, Samara, Leningrad; performed solo concerts as a pianist.

G. Hasanov led the first musical and artistic expedition to collect folk music. The expedition, departing from Buinaksk, passed along the route Arakany - Kudutl - Gergebil - Mogokh - Khunzakh - Chokh - Sogratl . During the expedition, a large amount of material was collected: 120 poetic texts and 100 folk melodies recorded on phonographic rollers. The materials of the expedition allowed G. Gasanov to write the scientific work “Songs of the Avars”, completed in 1927. G. Gasanov made a report at a meeting of the ethnographic section of the State Institute of Musical Science in Moscow in August 1927, having received recognition from the scientific community. G. Hasanov was awarded the degree of Corresponding Member of the National Anthem. In the same 1927, the compilation “Motives of the Dagestan dance: 12 lezgins performed by zurna” compiled by G. Gasanov and M. Dzhamalov was published. G. Hasanov was a teacher of such Dagestan musicians as Sergey Agababov, Seifullah Kerimov, Murad Kazhlaev, Shirvani Chalaev and others. G. Hasanov opened a musical technical school in Makhachkala (now a school , it now bears the name of G. Hasanov). G. Hasanov is considered the creator of the Union of Composers of Dagestan.

In 1935-1938 and in 1947-1953, the artistic director of the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; in 1943-1947 he was the head of the musical part of the Kumyk musical drama theater.

In 1955-1962 - Chairman of the Board of the Union of Composers of the DASSR.

The compiler of the collections of “One Hundred Dagestan Folk Songs” ( Makhachkala , 1948), “Kumyk Yyrs and Saryns” (M., 1956), etc.

The founder of the Dagestan professional musical creativity, Hasanov is one of the first representatives of the musical culture of Dagestan, a propagandist of works of Russian and classical music. He had a great influence on the formation as a professional of the famous Dagestan composer S. Agababov .

Gottfried Hasanov is the author of the first Dagestan works of musical and theatrical genres. Hasanov wrote the children's ballet Karachach, the opera Khochbar, songs for the plays Aygazi, Lyubov Asiyat, etc.

In 1963, Hasanov moved from Makhachkala to Moscow, but this did not change the main essence of his work as a deeply national artist. “My creative relations with Dagestan are the main things that call me to life,” he wrote from Moscow, “I will write only on Dagestan topics. I really love Dagestan and our people. ”

G. A. Gasanov died on May 28, 1965 in Moscow. He was buried in Dagestan - his grave at the very foot of the Tarki-Tau mountain. A melody of the slow part from his First Piano Concerto is carved on his monument.

The work of G. Hasanov was highly appreciated: he was twice a laureate of the Stalin Prize of the USSR (1949 and 1951); he was awarded the honorary title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR and DASSR. The name of Gottfried Hasanov is the Makhachkala Music College . In 1985, the name of the composer named the ro-ro class vessel "Composer Hasanov".

• Opera - Khochbar (c. 1937);
• children's ballet - Karachach (Chernokosaya, 1945);
• musical comedies - Yurek syuys (If the heart wants it, 1945, Kumyk music-dram. tp), Terek tupde (Under the tree, 1959, ibid.);
• oratorio - Dzhigits of Dagestan (1943);
• 2 cantatas - the Dagestan cantata of Stalin (to the words of R. G. Gamzatov , 1949); Mountains sing (1961);
• composition for orchestra - Dagestan fantasy (1942);
• two concerts for piano with orc. (1948; 1959);
• rhapsodies - for fp. with orc. (1963), for viola and orc. (1965);
• symph dancing (1963);
• three Kumyk songs (1964);
• piano miniatures - Lyric Pieces (ed., 1956);
• 24 preludes (1963);
• Suite for two pianos (1954),
• chamber production .;
• Op. for dag orchestra. Nar tools;
• romances, songs;
• music to dramas. performances and movies.

• Stalin Prize of the second degree (1949) - for a concert for piano and orchestra (1948)
• Stalin Prize of the Third Degree (1951) - for the "Dagestan Cantata of Stalin" (1949)
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1960)
• Honored Artist of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1943)

Literature on G. Hasanov

• Yakubov M.A. The father of Dagestan music. Makhachkala, 1980.
• Yakubov M.A. Gottfried Alievich Hasanov is the founder of the Dagestan professional musical culture. M., 2010.

• G. Hasanov’s opera “Khochbar”
• Makhachkala School of Music named after G. Hasanova

• Great article with photos about G. Hasanov
• About M. Yakubov’s book “Gottfried Alievich Hasanov - the founder of the Dagestan professional musical culture”
• WORKERS OF MUSIC CULTURE. Hasanov Gottfried (Dzhabrail) Alievich