Gara Garayev

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Gara Garayev, also spelled Kara Karayev and Qara Qareyev, born as Gara Abulfaz oglu Garayev (december 5, 1918 in Baku – May 13, 1982 in Moscow) was a prominent Azerbaijani composer from the Soviet period.. Gara Garayev was a composer far ahead of his time. We, his contemporaries, did not always understand his vision. He made nearly 110 pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, piano solos, cantatas, songs and marches. His imprint on Azerbaijan's music is profound. The ballet "Seven Beauties" by Gara Garayev (1952, based on the analogous poem by Nizami, choreograph P.A.Gusev, Azerbaijan Theater of Opera and Ballet) opened a new stage in the history of Azeri music. The ballet "Seven Beauties" played a critical role in the development of ballet in Azerbaijan as it founded the new musical dramaturgy in the ballet art of Azerbaijan. First Film In 1949 humanity succeeded for the first time in the history of oil technology to drill offshore at the Oil Rocks of Azerbaijan. During that time the Oil Rocks was the pearl of ambition of the Soviet Union. In 1952 composer Gara Garayev had been chosen to write the film score for the documentary, "A Story About the Oil-Workers of the Caspian Sea." The setting was Oil Rocks, an oil workers' small settlement of workshops and dormitories built up on trestles and piers out over the Caspian. Roman Karmen, producer of the documentary, took Garayev by boat out to the Oil Rocks settlement to check out the location where th

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