Gaziza Zhubanova

Gaziza Zhubanova was born 2 December 1927, in a village in the Jurun District, Aktyubinsk. Zhubanova attended school in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and graduated with honors. She was the daughter of Akhmet Zhubanov, a university educated musician and composer who was remembered as the first Kazakh composer to embrace Western music, and grew up in a musical environment. In 1945 Gaziza Zhubanova began studying at Gnessin State Musical College in Moscow, where she learned composition with M. Gnesin and L. Shtreiher. ==Selected works==

Gaziza Zhubanova uses subjects and images from the Kazakh history and folklore. She has composed in different forms, including piano, violin, voice, chorus, string quartet and popular songs. A 'significant part' of her output is large-scale works including opera and ballet, orchestral and choral works. • Aksak Kulan (1953–1954), symphonic poem • Booming in the night (1916), opera • Violin Concerto (1957) • Melody (Мелодия) in C minor for viola and piano (1950) • Night Light in the Ural (1957), cantata (words by Khamit Ergaliev) • Incidental music for On the Banks of the Irtysh (play by S. Kusainov) • Ode to the Communist Party • Glory to the Cosmonaut • Embrace • Ye Millions! • Song of Virgin Lands Enthusiasts • The Song Is the Voice of My Heart • The Earth, the Moon and Sputnik, ballet (choreography by V. Vainonen) • Ballade of Mukhtar Auezov, cantata • A Legend of the White Bird, ballet ==References==