Murad Magomedovich Kazhlayev (Russian: Мурад Магомедович Кажлаев; 15 January 1931 – 23 December 2023) was a Russian composer and conductor.[1] He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1981), People's Artist of the Republic of Dagestan (2016), and laureate of international premiums and contests. He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.[2]

Murad Kazhlayev
Kajlayev in 1993
Kajlayev in 1993
Background information
Born(1931-01-15)15 January 1931
Baku, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR
Origin Soviet Union
Died23 December 2023(2023-12-23) (aged 92)
Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
Occupation(s)Composer, conductor, pedagogue

Biography

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Murad Kajlayev was born on 15 January 1931 in Baku to a Lak family.[3] He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from Boris Zeidman's composition class.[4] He was expelled from there for his ardour for practicing non-academic musical genres but soon he was reclaimed. He worked as a teacher at a musical school named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as a chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphonic Orchestra (1957–1958), artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic Hall (1963–1964) and secretary of administration of the Union of Soviet Composers (from 1968).[1] Kajlayev died on 23 December 2023, at the age of 92.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Кажлаев Мурад". newmuz.narod.ru.
  2. ^ "Кажлаев Мурад Магомедович — Кто есть кто в культуре — Яндекс.Словари".
  3. ^ Мурад Магомедович КАЖЛАЕВ. biograph.ru
  4. ^ "Школа Мурада Кажлаева встречала гостей Международного фестиваля "Эта песня твоя и моя"". Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  5. ^ На 93-м году жизни ушёл из жизни народный артист СССР Мурад Кажлаев (in Russian)
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