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There in the reading hall of the arts’ department is organized the book exhibition dedicated to the centenary of the well-known Kazakh musical expert, candidate of art study Mariyam Mukhatayevna Akhmetova

Akhmetova Mariyam Mukhatayevna was born on March 13, 1921 in the aul Kenes (Kukbastau) of the Chuiskiy district of the Dzhambulskiy region. After the death of the father from 1931 to 1935 she was brought up in the Kara-Kastekskiy children’s home. In 1941 she finished the Almatinskiy musical college, and in 1951 graduated from the historical-theoretical faculty of the Alma-Atinskiy conservatoire after Kurmangazy. In 1951 there by the sector of art-study of the Presidium of the AS of the KazSSR she was sent to the post-graduate course of the Moscow conservatoire after Chaikovskiy to the class of doctor of art-study, professor V.M.Belyayev.

Akhmetova Mariyam Mukhatayevna in 1957 defended the candidate dissertation by the theme: “The Kazakh folk traditions and their development in the song creative activity of the composers of Soviet Kazakhstan”.From 1958 she worked as a senior scientific worker of the department of musical art of the Institute of literature and art of the AS of the KazSSR.

This same year she became a member of the Composers’ Union of the USSR, in 1962-1968 – head of the musica-study section, beginning from 1968 – member of the Board of the Composers’ Union of Kazakhstan. In 1962 elected delegate of the III-rd and IV-th congresses of the Composers’ Union of the USSR, in 1972 – the delegate of the International UNESCO conference for social and cultural development of the countries of Central Asia in the XIX-XX-th cc.

Akhmetova Mariyam Mukhatayevna was awarded with the medal “For valorous labour”, with the diplomas of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR and the jubilee diploma of the Presidium of the AS of the KazSSR.

There at the book exhibition are presented the materials about the life and creative activity of Akhmetova Mariyam Mukhatayevna from the fond of the book and periodical editions of National library of the RK.

                                    We invite you to the book exhibition!