Zataevich and Development of Professional Kazakh Music

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Aygul Imasheva

PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor, Musicology and Composition Department

Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatoire

Kazakhstan

Abstract

The article tells about one of the brightest and most dedicated figures of musical culture of Kazakhstan – Alexander Viktorovich Zataevich and development of professional Kazakh music. Being an inspired collector of musical works, an outstanding musicologist, a true connoisseur of folk music, he saved the bright and original musical culture of the Kazakh people from oblivion with his diligence and sincere love. Having touched the history of the Kazakh steppe, the composer found his true vocation, gained wide popularity and rightfully occupies a significant place in the formation of the foundations of professional performing culture in Kazakhstan.

А.Zatayevich, as a true enthusiast and creative person, was actively involved in the process of formation of the cultural life of the Kazakhs. The melodic richness of Kazakh folk songs, their obscurity among a wide range of musicians due to the peculiarities of oral performance, prompted him to decide to seriously study and systematize Kazakh folklore. A. Zataevich begins a huge and painstaking work that requires great passion and dedication. He collects and translates into musical notation songs that, according to the author, "reveal the spiritual depth and talent of the largest of the nomadic peoples." Having an exceptional human charm, tact and a fine ability to find a common language with people of different ages and professions, he recorded more than 2,300 works of musical folklore in a short time. They were included in his collections "1000 songs of the Kazakh people "(1925), "500 Kazakh kuys and songs" (1931), representing an anthology of Kazakh musical folklore from ancient times to the 1930s.

In his works in Kazakhstan for the first time appeared the characteristics of the work of such prominent folk composers as Abay Kunanbayev, Kurmangazy Sagyrbayev, Birzhan Kozhagulov, Zhayau Musa Baizhanov, Dauletkerei, Baluan Sholak, Mukhit, Ibray. The composer also left information about prominent Kazakh folk performers-AMR Kashaubayev, Gabbas Aitpayev, Kali Baizhanov, and others.

Keywords

A. Zataevich
folk music
folklore
songs and kui
folk composers
musical notation
processing
collector of oral art