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Gàãà Garayev

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But the matter was the new attitude of G.Garayev to folklore. Criticizing the consumer attitude towards people music said: "Don’t we mercilessly exploit the upper layers of folklore. Its main fertility is not in the upper layer, it' s more deeper than we think and we should use the technicalàl means" to go down there.

At the same time the complexity of "technical equipment" and image polyphony of consisting of various nations creativity couldn’t overshadow his deep, expressed in thinking level nationality. In one of the interview he emphasized this feature: "The national traditions sometimes naturally show themselves in creativity. I compose music on à base of Spanish, Bulgarian, and Vietnam themes. In this music but I hear very often the mark of my Azeri hands. How does it happen? I couldn’t explain and I don’t think about it at àll.

In other place Garayev again outlining that writes that he never has aim to be Azeri writer at the beginning. The problem is that artisan in genetic level belongs to his nation, and it carries with history, nature, national character, and language.

It' s impossible not to be amazed when thinking about Garayev's scale of activity. Íå combined features not only genius composer, but also qualities of public figure, famous pedagogic and scientist.

After the death of U. Hajibeyov Garayev, he had already administrated the Union of Azerbaijani Composers, was the war rector of Azerbaijan State Conservatoire (1949-53), was professor (1959), was head of the composer class, the full member of Academy of Sciences (1959). G. Garayev with passion of Renaissance period tried to help youth as he said, "who lives to create the truth". The words of Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet: "If I don’t fight, you don’t fight, we don’t fight how can we win?" are very suitable for creativity of G. Garayev.

The richness of moral world, intellect of the composer is astonishing. Jazz and folklore of world peoples, archeology and precise sciences, film, photography and image art, world' s science, all events of art, innovations, and inventories attracted his attention. "Garayev's intellect hasn’t border" — said Russian composer Rodion Shedrin and there is truth in these words. The writer Imran Gasimov also expressed this feature of his friend: "It doesn’t matter what he speaks about, it' s such an opinion as the entire civilization is in Garayev's hands". And all these are not in encyclopedic level. They are in original and well-studied way. Like in the head of the composer was constructed vehicle of production of information rays in unusual way".

Yes, Garayev has à quality to absorb àÏ heard and seen, to combine it with its art style. The gained knowledge extended his internal world, enriched his creativity. As he confessed "it was mean in relation with the world".

The wide sphere of interest, tension moral life, genres and style models were expressed in applied by Garayev themes. The composer was attracted by creative world of representing such various epochs and art traditions poets and writers like Nizami and Shakespeare, Omer Khayyam and Pushkin, Servantes and Nazim Khikmet, P. Abrams and Ì. Bulgakov, Å. Rostan and Samed Vurgun. Every time new Ôåòå and new images created corresponding new art variants and style peculiarities. So the bright, multicolor feature of ballet "In storm roads", features of symphonic engraving "Don Kikhot" 2, and "Alban rhapsody", Romanism and emotionality of "Leyli and Mejnun" symphonic poem, intellectual lyric, beauty of Violin concert alternate each other. At the same time in spite of many-colors themes, first of all Garayev paid attention to problems of contemporary time. The following statement of the composer is important: "The contemporaneity is shaking my soul. If I came to this world earlier, it’s possible that I wouldn’t composer".


2. The ballet "Don Kikhot" created on the basis of symphonic engravings of the same name was performed at Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater on 2000. Choreographer was G.Kovtun.


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