Murad Kajlayev
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Background information | |
Born | Baku, TSFSR, USSR | 15 January 1931
Origin | Soviet Union, Russia |
Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
Murad Magomedovich Kajlayev (Russian: Мурад Магомедович Кажлаев, Murad Magomedovič Kažlajev) is a Soviet and Dagestani composer and conductor,[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1981), laureate of international premiums and contests, Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.[2]
Biography
Murad Kajlayev was born on 15 January 1931 in Baku to a Lak family. He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from Boris Zeidman's composition class. 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 musical school named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as 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 Composers of the RSFSR (from 1968).[1]
Awards and prizes
•People's Artist of the USSR (1981);
•Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the 4th degree (1995).
Family
He is married to Valida Islamzadeh.
References
- 1931 births
- Living people
- Russian male classical composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- Soviet film score composers
- Male film score composers
- Russian music educators
- People's Artists of the USSR
- Azerbaijani ballet composers
- Russian ballet composers
- Baku Academy of Music alumni
- Musicians from Baku
- Russian classical musicians
- 20th-century Russian conductors (music)
- Russian male conductors (music)
- 21st-century Russian conductors (music)
- 20th-century Russian male musicians
- 21st-century Russian male musicians
- First convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)