In the reading hall of the Arts Department there is a book exhibition "Kasibi annin sheberi - Bakhytzhan Baykadamov", devoted to the 105th anniversary of the honored worker of arts of the Kazakh SSR, composer Bakhytzhan Baykadamov.
Bakhytzhan Baikadamov was born on March 24, 1917 in Turgai in the family of an employee. After school he entered the Pedagogical Institute in the Physics and Mathematics Department.
In 1937 after graduating from the institute B. Baikadamov was sent to Kazakh-Russian school №38 to teach mathematics. His students here - N. Tlendiev, Marat and Kuat Abuseitovs, G. Zhubanova and his younger sister Aisulu Baykadamova were future musicians. At school he created his own amateur art group and wrote his first songs - "Aygolek", "Pioneer Song", "Song of Joy".
After the end of the Great Patriotic War B.Baikadamov entered the composing department of Alma-Ata Conservatoire, the class of composition of E.Brusilovsky. During the years of study at the Conservatory B.Baikadamov wrote dozens of works for orchestras, chorus, individual instruments, the opera "Akaysha" in 2 acts on the libretto of D.Abilev and K.Baiseitov.
After graduating from the Conservatory, he headed the Kazakh State Philharmonic and became artistic director of the Choral Chapel.
In the mid-1950s the Kazakh State Song and Dance Ensemble was established and B.Baikadamov became its artistic director. The composer created for this ensemble the vocal and choreographic composition "Sayakhatta" in three parts for soloists, mixed choir, dance and symphonic orchestra. The composition was presented at the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow in 1957, where he was awarded the first degree Gold Medal.
Composer Bakhytzhan Baykadamov was the first to adapt Kazakh national cues for performing them in a cappella chorus. He used the most famous Kurmangazy's cues, among which were "Shalkyma", "Aizhan kyz", "Akpai" and others. As a result, created a new genre - the choral kyu.
In 1961 Baikadamov was invited to work at the Kazakh Women's Pedagogical Institute in the newly opened music department, where music teachers for ordinary schools were trained. He worked there as an assistant professor until the last days of his life. At the Institute he organized the women's ensemble "Aigul".
Today, composer B. Baikadamov is called the founder of Kazakh variety performance; in his honor the Kazakh State Choir, the School of Arts in Arkalyk, a street in Almaty, and a memorial plaque was opened in the house where he lived.
In gratitude to Baykadamov for saving the Chinese composer Xi Xinghai during the Great Patriotic War, a street was named after him in Guangzhou, China. In 2019, the world premiere of the feature film "Composer," which tells the story of Bakhytzhan Baykadamov and Xi Xinghai, took place.
Bakhytzhan Baikadamov - Honored Worker of Arts of the Kazakh SSR, laureate of the State Prize, Prize named after Dzhambul, was awarded the Order of Red Banner of Labor, medals "For Labor Excellence", "For the development of virgin lands".
At the book exhibition there are books, which reveal life, creative and pedagogical way of B.Baikadamov: "Kazakhstan composerlary. Composers of Kazakhstan"; "Creative portraits of Kazakh composers"; "History of Kazakh music"; "Instrumental music of Kazakh people"; "Questions of history and theory of music of Kazakhstan" by N. Ketogenova; "U. Jumakova, N.Ketogenova "Kazakh musical literature"; K.Baykadamova "Baykadamovtarәuletі: Derektі hikayat"; B.Baykadamov "Choral poems"; B.Baykadamov "Zhaylaudagy kesh"; "Kazak musicasy. Anthology"; P.Momynuly "Qazaq musicalsyn kysqasha tarikhy"; S.Uzakbaeva, B.Makhmetova "Ұltөnerin өrnektegen" and others.
Readers will also be interested in articles from periodicals, sheet music collections, musical works, scores, records of the composer's songs performed by famous Kazakhstani singers on vinyl gramophone records.
Welcome to the book exhibition!