Aleksandr Viktorovich Zatayevich (; 6 December 1936) was a Russian music

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and exponent of

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n folk music.

Life

Zatayevich was born on 20 March 1869 in

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. He graduated from the Oryol military gymnasium in 1886. He was largely self-taught in

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. He lived in

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, and

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, then finally settled in

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in 1920, where he began his most significant work. He worked as an

, collector, researcher on Kazakh folk music, and recorded about 3,000 instrumental melodies. He contributed to the ''Warsaw Diary'' which published music critiques and analyses. He wrote over 2,300 pieces of Kazakh folk music, of which 1,500 were published in two volumes during his life. He was the first to create a categorization system for Kazakh music, including genres such as historic, comedic, and legendary. He died on 6 December 1936 in

. In 1896, he was the dedicatee of

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's '' Six moments musicaux''.

Bibliography

*—. ''1000 songs of Kyrgyz/Kazakh people: tunes and melodies''. Orenburg, 1925. *—. ''500 songs and ''kyuis'' of Aday, Bukey, Semipalatinsk, and the Ural Kazakhs''. Alma-Ata, 1931.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zatayevich, Aleksandr Ethnographers from the Russian Empire Composers from the Russian Empire 1869 births 1936 deaths People from Oryol Soviet composers