Aslan Daurov - Dance (Circassian)

Aslan Alievich Daurov was a composer of Karachay-Cherkessia (July 24, 1940 - March 8, 1999), born in the village of Khabez, he lived most of his life in Cherkessk.
After graduating from high school with a silver medal, Daurov made his first creative steps at the Stavropol Musical College, where he studied in the trumpet class, and then moved to the choral conducting class.
During the years of study at the music school, Daurov tried his hand at writing. The first songs of the beginning composer were recorded on the radio and immediately attracted the attention of listeners.
Successfully launched steps in the field of composition inspired the student and he began to actively create songs for the program of the national student ensemble, which he himself led.
Working with this ensemble and creating a repertoire for it, he studied the features of the musical folklore of the peoples of the North Caucasus, which he later skillfully used in his compositions.
His first works confirmed the talent of the young musician. After graduating in 1963, Aslan successfully passes all the exams and enters the famous Moscow State Conservatory. where he was studying conducting and composing with the composer V. G. Fere.
The young musician was lucky enough to attend classes and concerts of prominent musicians like G. G. Neuhaus, M. L. Rostropovich. He studied with brilliant music teachers: N. P. Rakov, V. G. Agafonnikov, Yu. N. Kholopov and others.
After graduating, he immediately entered the graduate school at the Conservatory. During the years of study at the conservatory, Daurov actively worked in the field of composition.
The choral cycle “Five Mountain Songs” (1968) is included in the repertoire of the Moscow State Choir, which was headed by the great master of choral art V. G. Sokolov, and at the All-Union Competition for Young Composers he was awarded third place.
The chairman of the jury of this competition was the contemporary composer Sviridov. On its recommendation, literally in one day, Daurov was admitted to the Union of Composers of the USSR.
Then he returned to Cherkessk, where he taught musical and theoretical disciplines at the Circassian Musical College. In 1970 he became director of the school.
In the same year, the 30-year-old director created a folk symphony orchestra there, and at the same time headed the society of composers and melodists of Karachay-Cherkessia.
During 1970-1980, he writes symphonic and instrumental compositions, rhapsodies and vocal cycles, ballet and fantasies. Five of them received an award at the All-Union Review of Young Composers.
In 1989 Aslan Daurov created the cantata "Aul Songs".
Aslan Daurov became one of the brightest songwriters among the Adyghe authors. His songs are widely popular in Circassia, Kabarda, Adygea, Abkhazia, and throughout the Caucasus.
The well-known St. Petersburg composer Boris Tishchenko drew attention to the fact that “the apparent simplicity of A. Daurov’s music is fraught with great difficulties, as well as subtleties that you cannot see with the naked eye…”.
Daurov was the chairman of the Union of Composers of Stavropol.
He is also the author of several monographs about the life of famous composers, the book "Musical Culture of Karachay-Cherkessia".
For his great contribution to the multinational musical culture, Aslan Daurov was awarded the honorary titles "Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation", "People's Artist of the KBR", "Honored Art Worker of the Abkhaz ASSR".
In 1990, Daurov was a laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (this is the first prize of this magnitude in the entire history of the existence of not only Karachay-Cherkessia, but also the Stavropol Territory), a laureate of the State Prize of the KChR named after. Umar Alieva.
Daurov's great merit is the opening of the Karachay-Cherkess branch of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation, which he headed from 1993 until the end of his life. He is known as a gifted conductor, the creator of a symphony orchestra in a music school. Unfortunately, with the departure of Daurov from life, the Union of Composers collapsed, and the symphony orchestra ceased to exist.
A. Daurov was the only representative of the North Caucasus (of the whole region!), who is a member of the Commission on State Prizes of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art under the President of Russia.
The last years of his life, the composer lived in the city of Nalchik, worked as a music editor of the Kabardino-Balkarian radio broadcasting.

The image before the music is A Carousel (1920), by Boris Kustodiev, chosen by C. M for this video.

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