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Gara Garayev

Azerbaijani composer (1918-1982) · Russia · On the map · Musicians · Died at 64

Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev 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 the Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and...

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1982Died13 May 19821978Hero of Socialist LabourAwardOrder of LeninAward1971Order of the October RevolutionAward1967Lenin PrizeAwardOrder of LeninAward1965State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSRAward1961Order of the Red Banner of LabourAward1959People's Artist of the USSRAward1958People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSRAward1955Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSRAward1946Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"Award1944Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"Award1918Born5 February 1918

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Awards

Hero of Socialist Labour1978
Order of Lenin1978
Order of the October Revolution1971
Order of Lenin1967
Lenin Prize1967
State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR1965
Order of the Red Banner of Labour1961
People's Artist of the USSR1959
People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR1958
Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR1955
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"1946
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"1944
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"
Stalin Prize, 2nd degree
Mirza Fatali Akhundov State Prize of the Azerbaijan SSR

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Garayev 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 the Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.

Country
Russia
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1918 to 1982 · aged 64

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