Composer Zagir Ismagilov - a famous musician, outstanding professor, winner of numerous awards, the first rector of the State Institute of Arts of the city of Ufa. This is a man whose name is a symbol of the formation and development of the art of Bashkiria, and his works are a significant part of the gold fund of the republican musical culture.
Biography of Zagir Ismagilov briefly
The biography of such a significant personality originated in the Orenburg province, the small village of Verkhnyaya Sermenevo. Ismagilov Zagir was born on January 8, 1917 in the family of a hereditary lumberjack, grew up in an atmosphere of hard rural labor, incredibly beautiful nature and music - an endless source of beauty and peace of mind. At the age of 8, he learned to play kurai and after a while became the best kurai in his area.
Continuing family traditions, he entered the forestry technical school of the Inze village, after which he got a job in the organization “Beloretsky timber industry enterprise”.
The beginning of the creative path
A chance meeting with Arslan Mubaryakov, a famous actor who came to Beloretsk on a tour with the Bashkir Theater, turned the youth’s life on a sharp turn: he was offered to work in the play as a kuraista. Zagir’s debut was successful, and the young man received an invitation to study in a theater studio. It was here that the failed lumberjack knew all the subtleties of acting, performed with concerts, participated in performances. On the advice of colleagues who felt great creative potential in him, the 20-year-old Zagir entered the Bashkir studio, which opened at the Moscow Conservatory. Ignorance of musical 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 process folk tunes.
During the war (1941-1945), Zagir Garipovich Ismagilov lived and worked in Ufa, took part in front-line concerts and wrote songs on patriotic themes: “The Last Letter”, “Song of the Heroes”, “March of the Bashkir Batyrs”, “Shaimuratov General ”,“ Song of Kusimov ”,“ General Belov ”. After the release of the song “Fly, my bay!” the whole country spoke of the Bashkir composer.
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 he presented the opera that made him famous - Salavat Yulaev, which he defended brilliantly as a diploma paper. 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 of Russia and Bashkiria, and also used choral scenes, arias, ensembles, orchestral episodes.
Creativity of Zagir Ismagilov
The musical work of the composer made a huge contribution to the cultural life of Bashkiria; the author wrote a large number of songs to the poems of fellow countrymen. The theme of the works is closely related to nature, as well as the life of the motherland and the Bashkir people.
In 1959, the musical comedy "Kodasa" was written, which shows the confrontation between the inhabitants of the Bashkir village of the 30s in upholding the old way of life and introducing a new trend of the time, as well as the fight against prejudice that took place in the minds of people and completely broke down stereotypes. As a background for a fascinating plot, composer Ismagilov Zagir used poetic paintings of nature, skillfully showed the characters of the main characters.
During this period, successful studies in the studio, the end of the composer's faculty of the conservatory and the appointment in 1958 to the post of chairman of the Union of Composers of Bashkiria, to which Ismagilov Zagir was admitted in 1943, were left behind. Then his life path closely merged with the State Institute of Arts 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
Zagir Ismagilov, whose biography is a vivid example of determination, perseverance and the ability to achieve his goal, made a huge contribution 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 Soviet Union and abroad (Romania, China, Bulgaria, North Korea, Ethiopia, Yugoslavia), but are widely known. Ismagilov received thanks to his operas. The opera Shaura (1963), written after Salavat Yulaev, tells of the tragic and broken fate of Shaura, an unfortunate Bashkir woman who aspired to happiness and failed to achieve it in society with its strict and soulless Sharia laws. The melody of Bashkir folk songs, which the composer correctly used in his work, gives brilliant color and expressiveness to music.
Merits and achievements of Zagir Garipovich
1982 for little Bashkiria was marked by the celebration of the 425th anniversary of reunification with the Russian state. To such a significant date, Zagir Garipovich Ismagilov timed the opera Ambassadors of the Urals, the main character of which was shown to the people: at the beginning of the work, humiliated and insulted, and in the happy ending - jubilant and triumphant. The main motive in the opera, which 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, ballet “Shonkar”, concert for piano and orchestra. This is one of the leading musicians who nurtured the customs of a beautiful Russian romance and understood the value of songs of a domestic nature.
The Bashkir author successfully combined his work with active public work, was a deputy of several convocations of the Republican Supreme Council, and then its chairman.
In memory of the great composer
The great plowman of the musical world - Zagir Garipovich Ismagilov is loved and respected 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 remains rest in the Mohammedan cemetery.
One of the streets of Ufa is named after Ismagilov, 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 the State Academy of Arts of the city ​​of Ufa. The memory of the great Bashkir composer is forever immortalized in his outstanding works.