Turgun Alimatov

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Turgun Alimatov (Uzbek: Turgʻun Alimatov; 20 January 1922 – 17 December 2008) was one of the leading Uzbek classic music and shashmaqam virtuoso and composer, an eminent figure of 20th century folk and classical music. The People's Artist of Uzbekistan, The Pride of Uzbek nation, was an unparalleled master performer of tanbur, dutar, and sato. Alimatov is well loved by the Uzbek public. His image is associated with national pride. A broad musical community knows Alimatov first and foremost as a superior player of tanbur, dutar, and sato. He has found a new style and technique of performance on the dutar, sato, and tanbur which became popular around Uzbekistan, and his way of playing in these instruments is followed by many performers. Alimatov’s music is used in many Uzbek houses to put to sleep babies and kids, also in hospitals and treatment centers in Uzbekistan. Alimatov was born in Tashkent and lived there through the 1990s. He never took formal music lessons, instead he learned music from his father and by listening to music on records and radio. In doing so, he broke with traditions and developed his own style, despite scepticism from older musicians. He learned the dutar at the age of nine and the tanbur at the age of 15. He began performing in 1939, becoming well known to the Uzbek public by playing violin at Tashkent's Muqumi Thetare and joining the Tashkent radio station in 1948 where he performed in a succession of ensembles until 1982. Alimtaov is solely resp

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