Dimaev, Said Umarovich

Born in Grozny on August 24, 1939 in the family of the famous Chechen musician Umar Dimaev .

In 1957 he entered the Chechen-Ingush College of Music at the composer department in the class of the Honored Artist of the USSR, associate professor L. M. Shargorodsky and in 1963 graduated from it as a theoretical composer. In the same year he entered the music-theoretical department of the Moscow State Music and Pedagogical Institute. Gnesins , but subsequently transferred to the composer department. He was engaged in composition in the class of Professor Oleg Konstantinovich Eiges . He attended a master class by the outstanding Soviet composer Aram Ilyich Khachaturian .

After graduating from the institute in 1968, he worked as a teacher of musical and theoretical disciplines for two years, and also taught polyphony, harmony and form analysis at the Grozny College of Music.

In 1970, Said Dimaev became the artistic director of the State Chechen-Ingush Philharmonic. With his participation, national folk and pop groups were created ensemble "Zama", a group of "Fun hour", a children's group "Stars" and others. He was one of the organizers of the tour of famous Soviet performers of pop and classical musical art: the Cheerful Guys group led by Pavel Slobodkin , Alla Pugacheva , the famous cellist Leonid Grach , the Ariel group, the North Ossetian Symphony Orchestra led by Pavel Yadykh and many others.

Subsequently, he became the chief conductor and artistic director of the orchestra of folk instruments of the State Committee of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on television and radio broadcasting.

He worked in various genres: songs, romances, symphonic and chamber works, orchestral suites. He also created music for films, theatrical productions, wrote variations of folk melodies, wrote works that completely covered musical education on a national basis, starting from kindergarten and ending with a repertoire for a music school.

In 1980-1983 he was the chief conductor and artistic director of the orchestra of folk instruments of the State Committee of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on Television and Radio Broadcasting. In 1983-1986, a teacher at the Chechen-Ingush Music and Pedagogical College. In 1986-1991 - Deputy Minister of Culture of the Chechen-Ingush Republic. In 1994-1995, he was an adviser on culture and art of the Head of the Chechen Republic.

He was a member of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation. His works were performed by the orchestras of Moscow , Vladikavkaz , Grozny, Tbilisi . “Children's Album” by Said Dimaev was rated by the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation as an outstanding contribution to the development of musical culture.

He was a member of the section of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation on the artistic and aesthetic education of children and youth. Every year he participated in the festival “Composers of Russia for children”, where he took a direct part as a composer, performing in Moscow and various cities of Russia and the CIS . He participated in the Moscow Autumn festivals, had author's evenings in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania , and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic .

His works are in the repertoire of famous Moscow soloists and ensembles, such as the “Ensemble of Soloists” of the folk instrument orchestra led by Nikolai Nekrasov , pianist , Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Tatyana Rubina, violinist, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Leonora Dmiterko, soloist-vocalist of the Moskontsert Nadezhda Darina, Narodnoy Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, laureate of all-Union and international competitions, opera singer Movsar Mintsaev and others.

• Father - Umar Dimaev , a well-known Chechen musician and composer, People's Artist of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic;
• Brother - Mutush Dimaev;
• Sister - Aina Dimaeva;
• Brother - Ali Dimaev , musician and composer, founder and permanent leader of the first Chechen rock band Zama (Vremya), diploma-recipient of the XII World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (1985), Laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR (1986 ), diploma-recipient of the V International Festival “Yaroslavl Celebrations” (2000), People's Artist of the Chechen Republic (2001) and the Republic of Ingushetia (2001);
• Brother - Amarbek Dimaev, pianist, graduated from the Rostov State Music and Pedagogical Institute ;
• Wife - Dimaeva Fatima Vakhaevna, candidate of philosophical sciences, author of the project "Power Vertical";
• Daughter - Alita Sayd-Eminovna, pianist, music teacher;
• Son - Dimaev Arbi Sayd-Eminovich, graduated from RATI-GITIS , majoring in “Performing Arts Manager, Producer”.

• Concert for piano and orchestra.
• Oratorio "Time to act" for the choir, soloists and a large symphony orchestra.
• Symphony concert with a solo trumpet in the finale for a symphony orchestra.
• Symphonic poem "Sister of Mercy"
• Rhapsody for a symphony orchestra with a solo national harmonica.
• Two Suites from Music to Shakespeare 's Othello Tragedy
• Suite for wind instruments of the symphony orchestra.
• Elegy for violin and piano.
• Music for the play "Othello"
• Music for the play "From the Darkness of Centuries" - Idris Bazorkin .
• Music for the play “Imam Shamil” - Abuzar Aydamirov .
• Music for the play "Immortals" - A. Khamidov.
• Music for the play “Rainbow in Winter” - Mikhail Roshchin .
• Piano Preludes, Variations
• Concert Pieces
• Romances
• Songs
• Haji Murat Ballet (not finished)

• Dimaev S. U. Album of Piano Pieces. - Moscow: Composer Publishing House, 2000.
• Dimaev S. U. Album for children and youth. - Moscow: Publishing House "Krona", 2000. - 1000 copies.
• Dimaev S.U. Pedagogical repertoire for students of music schools and colleges. - Moscow: Composer, 2000.
• Dimaev S.U. One hundred masterpieces from the hands of Umar Dimaev. - Moscow: Publishing House "Soviet Composer", 2001. - 500 copies.
• Dimaev S. U. Suite “Moscow Autumn”.

in Russian

• Dati Sulumova. The bewitching sounds of music (Russian) // News of the Republic : newspaper. - 11/25/2011. - No. 220 . - S. 3 .
• Treat Yahyaev. Music Watered by the Sun ... (Russian) // Capital Plus: Newspaper. - September 18, 2004. - No. 74 .
• Isa Atabiev. The Old Piano (Russian) // News of the Republic: Newspaper. - 19.1.2012.

in the Chechen language

• Dimin Iumaran Saygid (Chechen) // Daimokhk : newspaper. - 5.4.2005.
• H. Abaev. Composer Dimaev Saygid (Chechen) // Daimokhk: newspaper. - 12/15/2011. - No. 138 .
• Dimaev Saygid (Chechen) // Daimokhk: newspaper. - 14.1.2012.

• Said Dimaev (unopened) (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment February 6, 2014. Archived February 25, 2014.
• Charming sounds of music (neopr.) . grozny-inform.ru. Date of treatment February 6, 2014.
• Memorial evening of Said Dimaev on YouTube