Ğäbäşi Soltanäxmät Xäsänğata ulı Soltan Ğäbäşi (18911942) was a Tatar composer, musicologist and choirmaster.

He was born in the village of Keche Sulabash of Dubyazsky Volost of Kazan Uyezd, Kazan Governorate

Kazan Governorate

The Kazan Governorate or Government of Kazan was a governorate of Imperial Russia from 1708–1920, with the city of Kazan as its capital.-History:...

, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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 (now Vysokogorsky District

Vysokogorsky District

Vysokogorsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the forty-three in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia. Its administrative center is the rural locality of zheleznodorozhnoy stantsii Vysokaya Gora. District's population: 46,323 ; Population of the administrative center...

 of Tatarstan

Tatarstan

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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 Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev

Gäziz Älmöxämmädev

Ğäziz Salix ulı Älmöxämmädev was an ethnic Bashkir Tatar opera singer and composer. He was born in the village of Muraptal of Sterlitamaksky Uyezd of Ufa Governorate . He was the People's Singer in 1929...

 he composed first Tatar opera

Opera

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s, Saniä (1925) and Eşçe (The Worker) (1930), vocal and instrumental concertos, arrangement of folk songs. As musicologist, he is known by his articles, devoted to Tatar musical culture

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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Soltan Ğäbäşi was a son of theologian and historian Xäsänğata Ğäbäşi.