Salikh Saydashev - Tatar composer, musician, conductor. Salih is the founder of the professional national music of his native country. Saidashev is one of the first maestro who decided to combine the modern sound of musical instruments with national folklore. He collaborated with Tatar playwrights and became known for writing a number of pieces of music for plays.
Childhood and youth
Maestro's date of birth is December 3, 1900. He was born on the territory of Kazan. The head of the family did not live a few months before the birth of his son. Salih became the 10th child in a row. Alas, only two children, including Salih, survived. 8 children died in infancy.
The boy's mother was an ordinary housewife. After the death of the head of the family, all the troubles for raising and providing for the family fell on the shoulders of Nasretdin Khamitov, the clerk and assistant to Zamaletdin. He took his cousin Salih as his wife.
When Salih was six years old, her mother noticed that her son was growing up as a musical and capable child. Family feasts were often held in the house. The boy pulled out the accordion from adults and picked up the melody by ear. He also tapped melodious sounds with a salt shaker that did not leave any member of the family indifferent.
At the age of eight, he went to study at a madrasah. At the same time, Nasretdin taught Salih to trade, but the boy was absolutely indifferent to trade and more often he simply shied away from work. Just at that time, Salih's older sister married Shibgay Akhmerov. Her husband was directly related to journalism and pedagogy.
Shibgay replaced the boy's father. He was a big-hearted man. Akhmerov noticed Salih's musical abilities and gave him a chic gift - he gave him an expensive piano. Since that time, the young man has been taking music lessons from the composer Zagidulla Yarullin.
At the beginning of the 14th year of the last century, the young man became a piano student at the prestigious Kazan Music College. After a couple of years, he was enrolled in the orchestra, and a year later Salih would assemble his first orchestra.
The creative path of Salikh Saydashev
He voluntarily ended up in the ranks of the Red Army. Salih had his own convictions, and he was not going to look at the current situation and stay away from the current situation. In the 22nd year, he returned to Kazan and there he entered the post of head of the musical part in the state theater.
Saidashev and director Karim Tinchurin are today listed as the "fathers" of the Tatar musical drama. Salih composed musical accompaniment in Tatar for Karim's productions. The play "Hirer" by T. Gizzat deserves special attention. In this production, Silakh Saidashev's waltz of incredible beauty sounded. Today, this work is included in the list of the most recognizable works of the maestro.
Then he creates an orchestra at the theater. In 1923 the musicians made their debut on the stage of the State Theatre. Behind the conductor's stand was the same Saidashev.
He was a versatile person. Of course, his life did not end only with the theater. In 1927, he took the post of music editor at the local radio. He gave himself to work. The result is obvious: he put Russian-Tatar programs on the air, compositions in different languages sounded on the radio wave, he gathered a choir and attracted young people to work.
The peak of popularity of the composer Salikh Saydashev
At the end of the 20s, he devotes a lot of time to touring. At this time, he conducted the brilliant opera Sania, and in 1930, in the capital of the Russian Federation, the opera Eshche, as well as the drama Il. The maestro's popularity peaked at the end of the 20s.
The composer's biographers called the 34th year of the last century the Moscow period of Saidashev's work. He came to study in the capital. He entered the Moscow Conservatory. In Moscow, Saidashev studied and worked. During this period of time, he writes an unrealistic number of compositions and marches. Here he composed the "March of the Soviet Army".
At the end of the 30s, he was awarded the title of Honored Worker of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Biographers call the 39th year the last year of a happy and carefree life. Then began the time of persecution and torture. He was suspended from work in the state theater. He was sent to the small village of Livadia to raise the local recreation center. But the worst was in store for him later. The Association of Composers in Kazan criticized the work of the maestro. They tried to destroy him, depriving him of the most important thing - the opportunity to create and develop the culture of his native country.
In wartime, the situation with the persecution of the composer faded into the background. He managed to return to the theater. He continues to conduct, write musical scores for plays and tour extensively. The maestro does not yet realize that wartime brings with it a time of change and these changes will affect cultural figures.
At the end of the 40s, the influential ideologue Andrey Zhdanov "walked" through the Soviet composers, literally trampling them. Saidashev was again not in the best position. He was fired from the theater, he no longer conducted or performed. His compositions practically did not sound on the radio.
Details of the composer's personal life
The first significant rise in creativity is directly related to personal life. In the 20s, he met a charming girl named Valentina. The girl chose a medical university for herself, but despite this, she was interested in music.
They got married in the mid-20s, and soon Valentina gave the composer a son. The woman died in 1926 from blood poisoning. Saidashev was very upset by the loss of his first love, besides, he was left in his arms with a newborn child.
Safiya Alpayeva - became the second chosen one of the maestro. She worked as a theater cashier. In the late 20s, he made a marriage proposal to the girl. They divorced four years later.
Asiya Kazakov - the third and last wife of Saidashev. They managed to build a really strong and friendly family. This marriage produced three children. Asia accepted the first son of the composer as her own.
Death of composer Salikh Saydashev
In the mid-50s, the composer's health deteriorated. The nephew suggested that he be examined in the hospital. Doctors found a cyst in the lung. Doctors sent Saidashev for an operation, which took place in one of the Moscow hospitals. The surgical intervention was successful. Soon he was transferred to a regular ward.
In the ward, he decided to get up, could not resist and fell. This caused the sutures to separate and cause internal bleeding. He died on December 16, 1954.
Farewell to the maestro was held at the State Theater of Kazan. At the funeral ceremony, the maestro's favorite composition, which he wrote for his first wife, sounded. His body is buried in the Novo-Tatar settlement. In 1993, a museum was opened in his house. The specialists managed to preserve the general “mood” of the house where the composer worked.
