Erkeghali Rakhmadiev

Erkeghali Rakhmadiev studied at Kazakh National Conservatory. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Distinctions recorded are People's Artist of the USSR, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, Order of Friendship of Peoples and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

• Name — Erkegali Rakhmadiyev • Native Name — Еркеғали Рахмадиев • Birth Name — Erkegali Rakhmadiyevich Rakhmadiyev • Born — 1 August 1932 • Birthplace — Almaty Region, Kazakh ASSR, RSFSR, Soviet Union • Education — The Kurmangazy Kazakh National Conservatory • Died — 9 April 2013 • Place of death — Almaty, Kazakhstan • Occupation — Composer, music pedagogue

Erkegali Rakhmadiyev was born in Shubartau, East Kazakhstan Region, to the family of Rakhmadi Zhabykbayev, a well-known aqyn and musician. From childhood, Erkegali was surrounded with folk music, he listened to performances by aqyns and dombra players and learned to play and perform as well. In 1952, he graduated from Tchaikovsky Alma-Ata Music Academy and joined Kurmangazy Kazakh Conservatoire to study under the well-known composer Yevgeny Brusilovsky (he finished these studies in 1957). Erkegali’s first job was that of a music teacher, and he already became the head of Kurmangazy Kazakh State Conservatoire at the age of 35. In 1969 he was awarded the academic degree of docent and a professor’s degree followed in 1979. Rakhmadiyev became the Chairman of Kazakhstan’s Union of Composers in 1968. He was an active public figure, serving as a member of the 7th through 11th Supreme Soviets of the Kazakh SSR and a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, at the dawn of newly found sovereignty, Kazakhstani authorities invited Erkegali Rakhmadiyev to head the State Committee for Culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Later he was appointed in a position of Minister of Culture of Kazakhstan. Mr. Rakhmadiyev spent his twilight years living in Astana and working as a consultant to the National Opera Theater named after Baiseitova. He died in Almaty on April 9, 2013.

• Kamar-Sulu(1963); • Alpamys (1973); • Song of Virgin Soil (1980); • Abylai-khan (1999).

• Kui Dairabay (1961); • Kudasha-Duman (1973).

• The Road of Life (1959, together with Aleksandr Zatsepin); • The Land of the Fathers (1966); • The End of the Ataman (1970); • Trans-Siberian Express (1977).