Biography of Fikret Amirov

The classic of Azerbaijani music was able to subtly feel folk music and create works on its basis, which to this day conquer listeners around the world. Probably the first thing he heard in his life after the voices of his parents was the sounds of Mugam. Although it could not be otherwise. Father Figret Amirov-Meshadi Jamil Kyarbelai Mir Aslan Ogla Amirov originally from Shushi-was an outstanding master of Mugam, virtuoso-Haundeus, who brilliantly owned many folk instruments: Tar, Eve, Ud.

Meshadi Jamil Amirov was the first to shift the Mugam to the notes and made one of his records on a gramophone plate. In addition, he wrote operas and dramas, composed the first military march in Azerbaijan and founded in Ganja, where he moved in the year, the orchestra and the music school. Meshadi Jamil Amirov, the father of the composer. When Figret was only six, his father was gone.

The fact that he will become a musician decided as a child as a child. Certificate of Amirov with Niyazi conductor. He graduated from a music school founded by his father, and in the year he entered the Baku Conservatory. The first address of Amirov is Dimitrov Street, now Badalbeli. The young man lived modestly, at first divided the apartment with a fellow student. The composition was taught to him by the famous professor Boris Zeidman among his other students - Murad Koslayev, and folk music - master Uzeyr Gadjibaili.

Everyone performed carefully and systematically, but not out of fear of getting a poor assessment or censure of Uzeyr-Bek. The teacher never scolded anyone, ”Amirov recalled. Regardless of the severity of the misconduct, Uzeir-Bek could behave with the guilty as if nothing had happened or in a word without saying about what had happened. And then completely unexpectedly, between the matter, suddenly looking at this student, he said: "Gyaribi is a strange guy, you are a strange guy." The delegation of Soviet artists in the United States.

In the year, Amirov writes his first large work - the symphonic poem "Memory of Nizami." The training was interrupted by the war, and the summer Amirov went into the army. Three months in the courses of signalmen in Tbilisi, then the Voronezh Front. In a battle near Bryansk, he received a heavy concussion, lay in the hospital for a long time. In M, he was demobilized and returned to his native Ganja.

He worked at a music school, which he once graduated, and a year later he returned to the conservatory.

Amirova’s brief military experience found the embodiment in the symphonic poem “Memory of Heroes of the Great Patriotic War”. He began to compose early and a lot, but at the same time matured. Even before receiving the diploma of the conservatory on the account of Amirov, three operettas, a concert for the piano with the orchestra of folk instruments, the overture of Dzhangi, several chamber plays.

The Symphony “Nizami” was performed in Moscow at the celebrations on the occasion of the summer of the Nizami and brought the composer the first success outside Azerbaijan. Next year, Amirov defends the diploma with a single opera Ulduz. It is noteworthy that the author of the creation of the novice writer was the People's Artist of Azerbaijan, the chief director of the Akhundov Opera and Ballet Theater Ismail Idateatzade.

And that its translation into the language of the modern orchestra will not weaken, but on the contrary, the tension will thicken, and the strict impregnable canons of Mugam are wise and flexible in the hands of the one who, having mastered them, subjugate their imagination to them. It also became clear that, despite the antiquity of origin, Mugam is not at all archaic: he naturally falls on the symphonic score, thereby confirming his unlimited possibilities.

” Amirov expressed this idea in adulthood, it also says about the events of the year when the summer graduate of the conservatory recorded two symphonic mugams: “Shur” and “Kurd-Ogshara”. The classic school of Amirov-composer, combined with a great love for folk music, allowed him to fuse the free improvisation of Mugam with established forms of academic music. However, the composer himself pointed to the naturalness of such a synthesis: “A peculiar original symphonic principle is laid in Mugam.

It is expressed in scale, content, depth of thought. Mugam is magnificent, elevated. " Amirov, the problem of reproduction by the forces of the Symphony Orchestra of singing Hannde and the unique sound of folk instruments, was original: the clarinet “plays” the role of the vocalist, and instead of a balaban and bow, you used, the eve uses a valtor and violin in the flavot technique.

The success of the Amirov Mugams was rapid. They sounded throughout the former Soviet Union, and then around the world. By the way, Amirov emphasized the special role that the great Bulbul played in the creation of the “Shur” and “Kurd-Ovshara”-the composer called him “the closest plain person, adviser and assistant”. But Figret Amirov should not be considered only a talented original, which was the first to write symphonic mugams.

Immediately after them, he is mistaken for the opera Seville based on the play by Jafar Jabbarly. The work was probably not easy, because it took four years. For Amirov, "Seville" has become a kind of challenge to itself. In addition to the fact that he, like any composer, wanted to try himself in the opera genre, Amirova attracted the content of the play.A man of progressive views, he was interested in the issue of female emancipation and - in a broader sense - the theme of the social and psychological liberation of man.

There was a personal moment here: a little boy Fikret played in the play by Jabbarly in his native Ganja. The premiere of the opera took place at the end of the year in Baku. The party of Balash was sang to Rashid Beibutov, who is still considered an unsurpassed performer of this role. Since the year, the composer lived on Tarlan Aliyarbekov Street, 2. However, the boy was allowed to be present at the sacrament of creativity, the main thing was not to interfere with his father, or even try to be inconspicuous.

Now on the facade of the house a memorial plaque is installed to the famous Bakuintsy. Amirov’s creative heritage is great: these are concerts for the piano with an orchestra, symphony, suits, a huge number of chamber essays, including music for performances and cinema, five ballets, one of which - “thousand and one night” - stands in his heritage apart. To work on him, Amirov went to the Middle East, to Syria and Iraq, to ​​those places where the fairy tales of Shahrezada takes place.

The musical material taken out from there made it possible to create an amazing ballet, where the melodies of folk music organically weaved into the classics. At the same time, Amirov emphasized that the East for him is not an exotic dish at all, which is only an external brilliance and unusualness can attract the listener. With the wife of Aida Han, son Jamil and daughter Seville.

Of course, the composer did not forget about his beloved Mugams-in the year he presented “Gulistan-Bayati-Shires”. His third and last symphony mugs differs from written in the year, but since then a lot of time has passed, so much was changed and rethought. It is curious that “Gulistan-Bayaty-Shirez” exists in two versions: with a traditional female vocal and with an alt-saxophone replacing it.

There were no restrictions for the composer in choosing technical tools: he rightly believed that genuine sound was not always achieved by the use of only folk instruments. In the year, Azerbaijan was preparing to celebrate the flight of Uzeyra Hajibaili. Of course, one of his favorite students could not stay away. Amirov decided to devote the Mugam concert for a violin with an orchestra to Mugami's memory.

Alas, the work remained incomplete: Figrat Amirov was released only 62 years of life ... But there remains a memory. During the life of Amirov, he was awarded all the highest awards of the former Soviet Union, including the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, besides him, only one Azerbaijani composer - Kara Karaev received the Golden Star. In the modern Baku there is a street of his name and a monument, his name is called a music school and the Azerbaijani State Song and Dance Ensemble.

But the main thing is, of course, the legacy. In the history of the world culture, the Fikret of Amirov will remain the founder of the genre of the symphonic mugam, a man who told about the wealth and greatness of Azerbaijani folk music. The Fikret of Amirov and Heydar Aliyev after the premiere of the ballet "Night".