Abdorahim Hamidov

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Abdorahim Hamidov (also spelled Abdurahim Hamidov; Cyrillic: Абдурахим Хамидов) was born in 1952 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. His ancestors were merchants and caravaners, and his father and grandfather were mullahs. He began learning music at the age of six by singing the entire repertoire of children's songs. A year later he began playing the rabab, a long-necked lute; and at age nine he developed a passion for the dutar, another type of long-necked lute, and had his first lessons on it. His repertoire consisted of lively, modern virtuosic melodies like those on radio and television. Hamidov studied in a music school (bilimyurt) typical of those found throughout the Soviet Union, but he was lucky in that at the age of sixteen he became part of the classical vocal ensemble of Salahudin Tokhtasinov. He soon became part of the musical life of Tashkent, which was very strong in the late 1960s. He was constantly invited to perform, and he became adept at learning melodies very quickly, even guessing their development after hearing just the first motifs. In 1972, Hamidov entered the Tashkent Conservatory and met Fakhriddin Sadiqov (also spelled Fakhritdin Sadikov, 1914-1977), who completely overturned his concept of music. Sadiqov was the founder of the Uzbek school of instrumental music. At their first meeting, Hamidov played one of the virtuosic pieces in which he excelled. Sādiqov acted impressed and congratulated him. "Then," recounted Hamidov, "he took my dutār, loosened the st

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