Tolib Sodiqov
Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Tolib Sodiqov (Template:OldStyleDate – 5 September 1957) was among the founders of professional music in Uzbekistan, as well as the composer of musical dramas, quartets, operas, and romances.
Sodiqov was born in Tashkent. From 1924 to 1928, he studied at the Institute of Music and Choreography in Samarkand, where his teachers included leading Uzbek poets and composers, such as Sadriddun Ayni, Sergey Mironov and Viktor Uspensky. He then studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow from 1934 to 1941, where he graduated as a composer and conductor in the class of Reinhold Glière.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
His many honors included the People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR and the Stalin Prize. Sodiqov also founded the Uzbek Composers Union in 1934 and served as its director for the following 14 years.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 1939, he wrote the first Uzbek opera, Leili and Mejnun, based on the poem by Alisher Navoi and libretto by Khurshid. The opera was given its first performance by the Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Opera and Ballet in 1940.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Among his other operas are Gulsara, Zainab and Omon. His more than 100 songs include Bul-bul (Song-bird), Bakhor (Spring), Sarvi-Gul (Flower), and Johon kurnur (I see such beauty). He also wrote the string quartet Eastern Dances, many film scores (Alisher Navoi, Yigit [Young Man], etc.) and choral works.
He died on 5 September 1957.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
Awards and honors
- People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1939)
- Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1951)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (6 December 1951)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Two Orders of the Badge of Honour (31 May 1937,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 16 January 1950)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Order of Outstanding Merit (25 August 2003; posthumous)<ref name=":18">Template:Cite news</ref>
References
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- 1907 births
- 1957 deaths
- 20th-century classical composers
- 20th-century male composers
- Musicians from Tashkent
- People from Syr-Darya Oblast
- Communist Party of the Soviet Union members
- Moscow Conservatory alumni
- People's Artists of Uzbekistan
- Recipients of the Order of Outstanding Merit
- Recipients of the Order of the Badge of Honour
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- Recipients of the Stalin Prize
- Male conductors (music)
- Soviet conductors (music)
- Soviet male classical composers
- Soviet male opera composers
- Uzbekistani classical musicians
- Uzbekistani composers