The outstanding personality of the twentieth century: Nazib Zhiganov (on his 110th anniversary)

Abstract

Zhiganov Nazib Gayazovich (January 15, 1911 –June 2, 1988) was a composer, music and public figure, teacher, Honored Art Worker of the TASSR (1939), RSFSR (1940), the first chairman of the Union of Composers of Tatarstan, the Secretary of the Union of Composers of the USSR (from 1962) and the RSFSR (from 1957), People's Artist of the USSR (1957), professor (1953), laureate of State Prizes, holder of numerous orders and meals, Hero of Socialist Labor. In 1938, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, G. Litinsky class of composition. In 1939–1977, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Union of the TASSR Composers’ Organizing Committee. In 1941 –1943, Nazib Zhiganov was the artistic director of the Tatar Opera and Ballet Theater. 1945–1988, he was the rector of the Kazan Conservatory. Zhiganov was also: a member of the Committee for the Republican Prize named after G. Tukay (from 1958); a member of the committees for awarding the Lenin and State Prizes in the field of literature and art under the Council of Ministers of the USSR (from 1961); a Deputy of the Supreme Soviets of the RSFSR (1951 –1959), the TASSR (1963–1967 and 1971 –1988) and the USSR (1966–1970). The composer's creative heritage consists of 17 symphonies, 8 operas, 3 ballets, program symphonic works, chamber instrumental works, vocal and choral compositions.