Aleksandr Zatayevich

Aleksandr Viktorovich Zatayevich ( _ru. Александp Викторович Затаевич; OldStyleDateDY|March 20|1869|March 8–December 6, 1936)ru icon cite web |url=http://www.biografija.ru/show_bio.aspx?id=45086 |title=Zatayevich Aleksandr Viktorovich|accessdate=2008-04-18 |date=2006 |work=Biografiya ] was a Russian music ethnographer and exponent of Central Asian folk music. [cite web |url=http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/za.htm |title=New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors |accessdate=2007-09-11 |date=2007 |work=New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors ] [cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=31134&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html |title=Akhmet Zhubanov |accessdate=2008-04-19 |date=2008 |work=UNESCO ]

Life

Zatayevich was born on March 20, 1869 in Oryol. He graduated from the Oryol military gymnasium in 1886. He was largely self-taught in music theory. He lived in Warsaw, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg, then finally settled in Orenburg in 1920, where he began his most significant work. He worked as an ethnographer, collector, researcher on Kazakh folk music, and recorded about 3,000 instrumental melodies. He contributed to the "Warsaw Diary" which published music critiques and analyses. [cite web |url=http://www.cultinfo.ru/fulltext/1/001/008/044/268.htm |title=Zatayevich Aleksandr Viktorovich |accessdate=2008-04-18 |date=2000 |work=Culture in Vologda Oblast ] He wrote over 2,300 pieces of Kazakh folk music, of which 1,500 were published in two volumes during his life. [cite web |url=http://phonoarchive.org/grove/Entries/S41866.htm |title=Kazakhstan (Kaz. Kazak Respublikasy). |accessdate=2008-04-18 |author=Kunanbayeva, Alma |date=1992 |work=Phonoarchive ] He was the first to create a categorization system for Kazakh music, including genres such as historic, comedic, and legendary. [ru icon cite web |url=http://musicheritage.nlrk.kz/?text=45.txt |title=Zatayevich Aleksandr Viktorovich |accessdate=2008-04-18 |author=Shukrat, Aysarov |date=2005 |work=Muzykal'noye naslediye Kazakhstana ] He died on December 6, 1936 in Moscow.

Bibliography

*—. "1000 songs of Kyrgyz/Kazakh people: tunes and melodies". Orenburg, 1925.
*—. "500 songs and "kyuis" of Aday, Bukey, Semipalatinsk, and the Ural Kazakhs". Alma-Ata, 1931.

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