By Laman Ismayilova
National Music Day in Azerbaijan is celebrated on September 18
each year. The date is the birthday of Azerbaijan's prominent
composer Uzeyir Hajibayli. The composer has had an invaluable
contribution to Azerbaijani and world music.
Public and cultural figures have visited the grave of the great
composer, Azernews reports.
Culture Minister Anar Karimov, Rector of the Baku Music Academy,
People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan Farhad Badalbayli,
Rector of the Azerbaijan National Conservatory, People's Artist of
Azerbaijan Siyavush Karimi, Director of the Azerbaijani State
Academic Philharmonic Society, People's Artist Murad Adigozalzada,
Director of the International Mugham Center, People's Artist Murad
Huseynov, Head of the Azerbaijan State Choir, People's Artist
Gulbaji Imanova paid tribute to Uzeyir Hajibayli.
In his speech, Anar Karimov praised Uzeyir Hajibayli's
contribution to the musical culture who raised Azerbaijani music to
the global level.
He noted that the Azerbaijani state has always paid great
attention to the composer's legacy.
People's Artist Farhad Badalbayli and Siyavush Karimi stressed
Uzeyir Hajibayli's merits in the development and promotion of
national musical art.
Further, the participants in the event laid flowers at the
graves of prominent figures of national musical art including
Uzeyir Hajibayli, Bulbul, Muslim Magomayev, Niyazi, Gara Garayev,
Fikrat Amirov, and others.
Uzeyir Hajibayli laid the foundation of a national musical
style. He was the first composer of an opera in the Islamic
world.
The opera Leyli and Majnun (1908) is based on traditional folk
music and dance, musical genres that relied on oral traditions.
Furthermore, the composer wrote his second opera Sheyx Sanan,
Rustam and Sohrab, Asli and Karam, Shah Abbas, Khurshudbanu and
Harun and Leyli entirely based on the national folk music elements,
primarily mugham.
He also composed three comedies including, Husband and Wife
(1910), If not this one, that one (1911), and Arshin Mal Alan
(1913).
Arshin Mal Alan or The Cloth Peddler was the latest and one of
the most popular operettas of the eminent composer.
The operetta has been successfully performed in a plethora of
languages in over 60 countries of the world, including in the U.S.,
Austria, France, China, Greece, India, Russia, and Turkey.
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