House Museum of Gara Garayev – world-known Azerbaijani composer

Baku, July 7, AZERTAC

The Home Museum of Gara Garayev, world-known Azerbaijani composer, whose music rooted in traditions of Azerbaijani people, was opened on his one centesimal birthday on 3 October, 2018 in Baku.

Not solely the mother and father of Gara Garayev lived on this home, an impressive composer spent his childhood and youth right here. He composed his first works on this very home.

The museum’s assortment contains private belongings, posters, packages, images, books and different displays devoted or belonging to Gara Garayev.

The Home-Museum operates as a part of the State Museum of Musical Tradition.

Details about Garayev is split into durations of his life and work. Every interval has its personal color, so you possibly can simply navigate by means of the flat.

Garayev was a scholar of Shostakovich, who’s considered one of many main composers of the twentieth century and whose music is closely indebted to the music of his native Azerbaijan.

He wrote ballets, together with Seven Beauties (1952) and The Path of Thunder (1957); an opera Motherland (co-authored with J. Hajiyev (1945); three symphonies (1943, 1946, 1964); a symphonic poem, Leyli and Majnun (1947); Albanian Rhapsody (1952); Don Quixote Symphonic Engravings (1960); 24 Preludes for Piano (1951-1963); a Violin Concerto (1967); incidental movie music, Fires of Baku (1951), The Conqueror of the Sea (1965), and plenty of different works.

Garayev additionally beloved movie pictures and bikes. These hobbies are mirrored on a particular stand put in within the museum.

One other touching second is Garayev’s letters to kids, that are price studying.

It’s also possible to hearken to music from Don Quixote, which accompanies the ambiance. There are numerous posters, notes and publications, in addition to a video set up on the wall the place you possibly can see how the composer grew up and advanced.

Gara Garayev emerged as a groundbreaking twentieth-century fashionable composer, whose works appeared in lots of live performance halls of the world, together with nations of the previous Soviet Union, Europe, and the USA.