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Tatar language

The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...

: Газиз Салих улы Әлмөхәммәдев; , Gaziz Salikhovich Almukhamedov; 1895–1938) was an ethnic Bashkir

Bashkirs

The Bashkirs are a Turkic people indigenous to Bashkortostan extending on both parts of the Ural mountains, on the place where Europe meets Asia. Groups of Bashkirs also live in the republic of Tatarstan, Perm Krai, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Tyumen, Sverdlovsk, Kurgan, Samara and Saratov Oblasts of...

 Tatar opera singer (tenor

Tenor

The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

) and composer. He was born in the village of Muraptal of Sterlitamaksky Uyezd of Ufa Governorate

Ufa Governorate

Ufa Governorate was a governorate of Russian Empire with its capital in city Ufa. Was created in 1865 by separation from Orenburg Governorate. March 23, 1919 the governorate was transformed to Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic...

 (now Kuyurgazinsky District

Kuyurgazinsky District

Kuyurgazinsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the fifty-four in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. It is located in the southwestern part of the republic and borders with Fyodorovsky and Meleuzovsky Districts in the north, Kugarchinsky District in the east, and...

 of the Republic of Bashkortostan

Bashkortostan

The Republic of Bashkortostan , also known as Bashkiria is a federal subject of Russia . It is located between the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. Its capital is the city of Ufa...

). He was the People's Singer in 1929. From 1922 to 1929 he lived in Kazan

Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. With a population of 1,143,546 , it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. Kazan lies at the confluence of the Volga and Kazanka Rivers in European Russia. In April 2009, the Russian Patent Office granted Kazan the...

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In collaboration with Vasili Vinogradov

Vasili Vinogradov

Vinogradov Vasily Ivanovich Vasili Vinogradov; ; 1874 – 1948) was an ethnically Russian Tatar opera composer, violinist and pedagogue...

 and Soltan Ğäbäşi

Soltan Gäbäsi

Ğäbäşi Soltanäxmät Xäsänğata ulı Soltan Ğäbäşi was a Tatar composer, musicologist and choirmaster.He was born in the village of Keche Sulabash of Dubyazsky Volost of Kazan Uyezd, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire .In collaboration with Vasili Vinogradov and Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev he composed first...

, he composed the first Tatar opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

s, Saniä (1925) and Eşçe (The Worker) (1930).

Älmöxämmädev composed also vocal and instrumental concertos.

Älmöxämmädev was a victim of Great Purge

Great Purge

The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938...

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