Säydäşev Salix Camaletdin ulı [sæˈlʲix sæɪˈdæʃ(əf)] (Tatar Cyrillic

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...

: Сәйдәш(ев) Салих Җамалетдин улы; , Saydashev Salikh Zamaletdinovich; 1900 – December 16, 1954) was a Tatar composer and conductor. People's Artist of Tatar ASSR (1951), Honoured Worker of Culture (1939). Salix Säydäş one of the founding fathers of Tatar professional music

Music of Tatarstan

Tatarstan is an autonomous republic within Russia, where the largest ethnic group is the Tatars. Their traditional music is a mixture of Turkic and Finno-Ugric elements, reportedly bridging Mongolian and Hungarian music. Nonetheless, the most distinguishing feature of Tatar music is the pentatonic...

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Säydäşev gave a stimulus to development of different genres in Tatar music, such as opera, ballet, musical comedy, symphonic, choral, popular and pop music. The main part of his creative work was music for musical dramatic plays, such as The Blue Shawl (1926) and On Qandır (1932) by Kärim Tinçurin, The Employer by Taci Ğizzät (1928). In 1922-1948 (off and on) Säydäşev was a chief of musical division and conductor in Kazan-based Tatar Academic Theatre. At that time Säydäşev also arranged concerts.

The Salix Säydäşev Museum opened 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...

in 1990. In 2000 the State Concert Hall of Tatarstan was named after Säydäşev.