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Gaziza Zhubanova

This is a Kazakh name. Gaziza is the given name, and Zhubanova is a patronymic, not a family name.
Gaziza Zhubanova
Born(1927-12-02)December 2, 1927
Jurun District, Aktyubinsk
DiedDecember 13, 1993(1993-12-13) (aged 66)
Almaty, Kazakhstan
NationalityKazakh
EducationAttended school in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan
Occupation(s)Composer, pedagogue

Gaziza Akhmetkyzy Zhubanova (Kazakh: Ғазиза Ахметқызы Жұбанова, Ǵazıza Ahmetqyzy Jubanova; Russian: Газиза Ахметовна Жубанова with middle name "Akhmetovna"; 2 December 1927 – 13 December 1993) was a Soviet and Kazakh composer and pedagogue. She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1981.

Life

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Gaziza Zhubanova was born 2 December 1927, in a village in the Jurun District, Aktyubinsk. Zhubanova attended school in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and graduated with honors. She was the daughter of Akhmet Zhubanov, a university educated musician and composer who was remembered as the first Kazakh composer to embrace Western music, and grew up in a musical environment.[1][2]

In 1945 Gaziza Zhubanova began studying at Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, where she learned composition with M. Gnesin and L. Shtreiher.[1] After completing her studies there, she studied composition with Yuri Shaporin, at the Moscow Conservatoire. After graduating in 1954, she took additional studies in composition and then in 1957 began a career as a composer.[1]

In 1954, she participated in the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the Kazakh Union of Composers. Gaziza Zhubanova has been Chairman of the Kazakh Union of Composers, a member of the board of the USSR Union of Composers and was director of the Alma-Ata City Conservatory from 1975 to 1987.[1] She often worked with the Kazakh Song and Dance Company.[3][1]

Selected works

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Gaziza Zhubanova uses subjects and images from the Kazakh history and folklore. She has composed in different forms, including piano, violin, voice, chorus, string quartet and popular songs. A 'significant part' of her output is large-scale works including opera and ballet, orchestral and choral works.[1]

  • Aksak Kulan (1953–1954), symphonic poem
  • Booming in the night (1916), opera
  • Violin Concerto (1957)
  • Melody (Мелодия) in C♯ minor for viola and piano (1950)
  • Night Light in the Ural (1957), cantata (words by Khamit Ergaliev)
  • Incidental music for On the Banks of the Irtysh (play by S. Kusainov)
  • Ode to the Communist Party
  • Glory to the Cosmonaut
  • Embrace
  • Ye Millions!
  • Song of Virgin Lands Enthusiasts
  • The Song Is the Voice of My Heart
  • The Earth, the Moon and Sputnik, ballet (choreography by V. Vainonen)
  • Ballade of Mukhtar Auezov, cantata
  • A Legend of the White Bird, ballet

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International Encyclopedia of Women Composers (2nd ed.). South Africa: Books & Music (USA). p. 777. ISBN 0-9617485-0-8.
  3. ^ "Gaziza Zhubanova". Archived from the original on 11 August 2016. Retrieved 27 September 2010.