Tolib Sodiqov ( – 5 September 1957) was among the founders of professional music in

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, as well as the composer of musical dramas, quartets, operas, and romances. Sodiqov was born in

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. 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

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from 1934 to 1941, where he graduated as a composer and conductor in the class of

Reinhold Glière Reinhold Moritzevich Glière (23 June 1956), born Reinhold Ernest Glier, was a Russian and Soviet composer of German and Polish descent. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of RSFSR (1935) and People's Artist of USSR (1938). Biography ...

. 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. In 1939, he wrote the first Uzbek opera, ''Leili and Mejnun'', based on the poem by

Alisher Navoi 'Ali-Shir Nava'i (9 February 1441 – 3 January 1501), also known as Nizām-al-Din ʿAli-Shir Herawī ( Chagatai: نظام الدین علی شیر نوایی, ) was a Timurid poet, writer, statesman, linguist, Hanafi Maturidi mystic and ...

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. 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.

Awards and honors

* People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1939) * Stalin Prize, 3rd class (1951) *

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(6 December 1951) * Two Orders of the Badge of Honour (31 May 1937, 16 January 1950) *

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(25 August 2003; posthumous)

References

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