Ğäbäşi Soltanäxmät Xäsänğata ulı a.k.a. Soltan Ğäbäşi (18911942) was a Tatar composer, musicologist and choirmaster.
He was born in the village of
Keçe Solabaş near
Döbyaz, then a part of
Qazan Uyezd,
Qazan Governorate
Kazan Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Tsardom of Russia, the Russian Empire, and the Russian SFSR from 1708 to 1920, with its capital in Kazan.
History
Kazan Governorate, together with seven other gov ...
,
Russian Empire
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(now
Biektaw District
Vysokogorsky District (; ) is a Administrative divisions of the Republic of Tatarstan, territorial administrative unit and Municipal divisions of Russia, municipal district of the Tatarstan, Republic of Tatarstan within the Russia, Russian Federati ...
of
Tatarstan
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).
In collaboration with
Vasili Vinogradov
Vasili (or Vasily) Ivanovich Vinogradov (, ; 1874–1948) was an ethnically Russian Tatar opera composer, violinist and pedagogue, awarded as a TASSR Honoured Worker of Culture in 1944.
In collaboration with Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev and ...
and
Ğäziz Älmöxämmädev he composed first Tatar
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.
Soltan Ğäbäşi was a son of theologian and historian
Xäsänğata Ğäbäşi.
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1891 births
1942 deaths
Tatar people from the Soviet Union
Tatar composers
Soviet composers
Soviet musicologists