Murad Kazhlayev

Murad Magomedovich Kazhlayev (15 January 1931 – 23 December 2023) was a Russian and Lak composer and conductor. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1981), People's Artist of the Republic of Dagestan (2016), and laureate of international premiums and contests. He was also Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Great Academic Concert Orchestra named after Silantyev, a professor and academician at Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Murad Kazhlayev Мурад Кажлаев
Kazhlayev in 1993
Background information
Born	(1931-01-15)15 January 1931 Baku, Transcaucasian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Azerbaijan)
Died	23 December 2023(2023-12-23) (aged 92) Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia
Genres	Classical
Occupations	Composer conductor teacher

Biography

Murad Kajlayev was born on 15 January 1931 in Baku to a Lak family. He graduated from Baku State Conservatoire from the composition class of Boris Zeidman. He was expelled from there for his ardour for practicing non-academic musical genres but soon he was reclaimed. He worked as a teacher at a musical school named after Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in Makhachkala, as a chief conductor of the Dagestan Radio Symphonic Orchestra (1957–1958), artistic director of the Dagestan Philharmonic Hall (1963–1964) and secretary of administration of the Union of Soviet Composers (from 1968). Kajlayev died on 23 December 2023, at the age of 92.

External links

• Murad Kazhlayev discography at Discogs
• Murad Kazhlayev at IMDb as Murad Kazhlayev