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Kara Karayev
12+ albums
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Kara Abulfaz oghlu Karayev (February 5, 1918 in Baku - May 13, 1982 in Moscow), also spelled as Kara Karaev, Qara Qara(y)ev or Gara [Abulfazovich] Gara(y)ev, was a prominent Azerbaijani composer of the Soviet period. Karayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs and marches, and rose to prominence not only in Azerbaijan SSR but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide. Karayev was born in 1918 to a pediatrician father, who was famous in Baku, and a musician mother. In 1926, at the age of eight, Karayev first entered the junior music school at the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire, currently known as the Baku Music Academy. Due to his musical talents, in 1933 Karayev was allowed to enroll simultaneously in two faculties at the conservatoire. In 1937, Karayev joined the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1938, at the age of twenty, Karayev composed his first musical piece, a cantata "The Song of the Heart" to the poem by Rasul Rza. Karayev conducted his cantata during its premiere the "Decade of Azerbaijani Art" festival in the Bolshoi Theater, an event also attended by Joseph Stalin. In the same year, he moved to Moscow State Conservatoire, where he became a student and a good friend of Dmitri Shostakovich. In 1945, Karayev and Jovdat Hajiyev wrote the "Motherland" opera, for which they were awarded a prestigious Stalin prize. In 1948, at the age of 30, Karayev was again awarde
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7 Krasavits (7 Beauties) Ballet Suite: I. Waltz
259224 Preludes: No. 2. Andante
2503Seven Beauties Ballet Suite: I. Waltz
2344Tropoyu groma (In the Path of Thunder) Ballet Suite No. 2: V. Lullaby
875Violin Concerto: II. Andante
786Violin Sonata in D Minor: III. Pastorale. Moderato
6277 Krasavits (7 Beauties) Ballet Suite: II. Adagio
618The Seven Beauties Suite: I. Waltz
5097 Krasavits (7 Beauties) Ballet Suite: IV. The Seven Portraits: Introduction
49107 Krasavits (7 Beauties) Ballet Suite: IV. The Seven Portraits: The Indian Beauty
47albums
Karayev: 7 Beauties & In the Path of Thunder
Kara Karayev: Piano Works
Kara Karayev: Symphony No. 1, Violin Concerto, Albanian Rhapsody
Karayev: Ballet Suites
Garayev: Violin Sonata & 24 Preludes for Piano
Karayev: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto
Karayev: Symphony No. 3
Seven Beauties (Haft Elaheh) - Azerbaijan Classical Music
Karayev: Seven Beauties Suite, Leyla and Mejnuin, Don Quixote & Lullaby from "The Path of Thunder"
Karayev: Orchestral Works
Karayev, K: Symphony No. 3 / Leyli and Medjnun / Don Quixote
Ballet Suites