Biography of the Sultan Gabashi

Home »Biographies» Composers of the Republic of Belarus Sultan Gabashi - the founder of Bashkir professional musical art for the well from the birthday of the composer today celebrates the fly from the birth of an outstanding composer, folklorist, musical and public figure of Sultan Hasanovich Gabashi. He stood at the origins of Tatar and Bashkir professional music and his multifaceted activity made a significant contribution to national culture and art.

He was born in Tataria, but it was on Bashkir land that he created his first works, proved himself as the organizer of musical groups, a composer and conductor, teacher and folklorist. He grew and was brought up in a wealthy and educated family of a religious figure of Khasangata Gabashi, the founder of the New Festation School in his native village. The Sultan Gabyashi studied at the Muhammadia Madrasah in Kazan, then continued the education in the Ufa Madrasah "Gusmania", later at the Ufa real school and the famous Madrasah "Galia".

In Ufa, the Sultan takes the lessons of the piano game with the teacher Nina Sokolova, takes part in the concerts of Tatar-Bashkir music, performs with his musical works, gives lectures, writes articles about national music. It manifests itself as the organizer of amateur orchestras and choirs. In Ufa, his first works “Cuckoo”, “Waltz”, “Tatar girl”, processing of Tatar and Bashkir folk songs appear.

In the year, together with his parents, Sultan Gabashi moved to Kazan. In years he studied at the Law Faculty of Kazan University. He taught at the same time in the educational institutions of Kazan. In March, the drama group “Sayyar” was delivered by the drama of the Gava Iskhaki “Zuleikha” the first dramatic work in the history of the National Theater with specially written music, the author of which was the Sultan Gabyashi.

Musical numbers were performed by an orchestra under the control of the author. The success of the drama was phenomenal and inspired the young composer. The Sultan Gabashi is actively involved in the cultural and musical life of Kazan, acts as an accompanist, conducts music lessons, and leads school choirs. Continues to create works of small forms of romances, choirs, instrumental works.

Both operas were first delivered in Kazan in the Tatar language and was a great success. However, soon articles appear in the Kazan press with the criticism of Sultan Gabashi as the son of a “minister of worship”, he is unfounded of panicism and pan -Turkism. In the year, the composer was forced to move to Ufa, which was facilitated by his friend and comrade -in -arms Gaziz Almukhametov.

Sultan Gabyashi studied and recorded folk songs and instrumental tunes, created processing for the choir.

In years he performed musical and ethnographic expeditions in Bashkiria together with composer Alexander Klyucharem, where he recorded and noted about 50 Bashkir folk songs. They later entered the collection "Bashkir Folk Songs", published in Ufa in the year. Together with the composer Khabibullah Ibragimov and the first director of the Bashkir College of Arts Ivan Saltykov, Sultan Gabyashi became the compiler of the music program for elementary schools, the collection “10 International Songs” in Bashkir, under the musical version of the Sultan of Gabyashi.

He prepared the collections of “Songs of Factories and Factories” and “Red Army Songs”, which included samples of popular folklore he collected, which, unfortunately, remained unrelated. Among the well -known works of the composer “Solemn march” for the symphony orchestra for the education of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, the instrumental plays “Waltz”, “Polka”, “Sorrow”, “Picnic”, “Joy after sadness”, “Marsh”, “Youth” and other, various vocal works.

He was engaged in translating the libretto of classic operas into the Bashkir language. In the year, Sultan Gabashi, along with musicologist Lev Lebedinsky, worked on the records of Bashkir songs. In the year, he concluded an agreement with the Moscow composer Nikolai Chambergie on joint work on the music of the ballet "Sygraru Torn". Composer Anton Eichenwald invited him to work together on the Ashkadar opera.

But these plans were not destined to come true. Since the year, Sulpan Gabyashi has been a teacher of the Chelkakovskaya secondary school in the Buraevsky district, where he was forced to move due to continuing persecution and difficult living conditions in Ufa. In Chelkakovo, Sultan Gabashi, in addition to working at the school where he led the singing lessons, created a brass band, organized concerts and performances.

The composer died on January 8 of the year, being in heavy logging works, in a year of life, and was buried in Chelkakovo. The biography and creative life of the Sultan Gabashi is lit in the brief encyclopedia “Bashkortostan”, the 2nd volume of the Bashkir Encyclopedia, the Ural historical encyclopedia, the Bashkiria composers, “composers and musicologists of the Republic of Bashkortostan”, “composers and musicologists of Soviet Tatarstan”, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa, Ufa and other publications.

The name of the Sultan Gabashi is worn by the Buraevskaya district music school and a street in the Volga region of the city of Kazan.A small museum of the composer is organized in the Chelkakov school, where his personal belongings, photos and documents are stored. The famous Russian archaeologist became the son of composer Rustem Gabashi G.