Singer of the USSR Magomayev. Muslim Magomayev: the story of the first unhappy marriage and beloved daughter (photo shoot)

Soviet pop singer, composer.
Honored Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1964).
Honored Artist of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR.
People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1971).
People's Artist of the USSR (1973).
Honored Worker of Culture of the Polish People's Republic.

Born on August 17, 1942 in Baku (Azerbaijan).
Father - Magomet Magomayev, a theater artist, died at the front two days before the Victory.
Mother - Aishet Magomayeva (nee - Kinzhalova), dramatic actress.
His grandfather is Muslim Magomayev, a famous Azerbaijani composer, whose name is the Azerbaijan Philharmonic.

From childhood he was fond of painting and sculptural modeling.

He studied at the music school at the Baku Conservatory in piano and composition.

He graduated from the Azerbaijan State Conservatory in the vocal class of Shovket Mammadova (1968).

In 1960-1961. - Soloist of the Grozny State Philharmonic.

All-Union fame came after his performance in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses at the final concert of the Azerbaijani Art Festival in 1962.
The first solo concert of Muslim Magomayev took place on November 10, 1963 in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

From 1963 to 1968 - Magomayev soloist of the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater named after Akhundov, continues to perform on the concert stage.
In 1964-1965, he trained at the La Scala Theater in Milan, but at the end of the internship, he refused to work in the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater.
In 1966 and 1969, Muslim Magomayev's tour of the famous Olympia theater in Paris was a great success. The director of Olimpia, Bruno Coquatrices, wanted to get Magomayev for another year and offered him a contract, promising to make him an international star. The singer seriously considered such an opportunity, but the Ministry of Culture of the USSR refused, citing the fact that Magomayev should perform at government concerts.

In 1973, at the age of 31, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.

From 1975 to 1978 - Magomayev was the artistic director of the Azerbaijan State Variety Symphony Orchestra, which he created, with which he toured the USSR a lot.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Magomayev's popularity in the USSR was limitless: stadiums of many thousands, endless tours throughout the Soviet Union, constant television appearances. Records with his songs came out in huge circulation. To this day, he remains an idol for many generations of people in the post-Soviet space.
Magomayev's concert repertoire includes more than 600 works (Russian romances, classical, pop and Neapolitan songs); he starred in the films: "Nizami" (1982) and "Muslim Magomayev Sings", "Moscow in Notes".

In 1978-1987 he was a soloist of the Baku Opera Theatre.

A family.
First wife - Ofelia (married at 18, lived with her for one year). Has a daughter, Marina, and a grandson, Allen.
The second wife is Tamara Ilyinichna Sinyavskaya (they lived together for almost 34 years), singer, People's Artist of the USSR.

In 1997, one of the minor planets of the solar system, known to astronomers under the code 1974 SP1, was named after him 4980 Magomaev.

He passed away on Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 06:49 am in his Moscow apartment from coronary heart disease.

prizes and awards

Order of Honor (August 17, 2002) - for his great contribution to the development of musical art.
Order of Independence (Azerbaijan, 2002) - for great merits in the development of Azerbaijani culture.
Order of Glory (Azerbaijan, 1997).
Order of Friendship of Peoples (1980).
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1971).
Badge of Honor "For Services to Polish Culture"
Breastplate "Miner's Glory" III degree.
Order "Heart of Danko", awarded for outstanding achievements in the development of Russian culture.
In 1969, at the festival in Sopot, Magomayev received the 1st prize,
and in Cannes in 1968 and 1970 - "Golden Disc" for millions of records.

Muslim Magomayev is a legend of the Soviet, and later Russian stage, a talented singer with a unique voice. Born in the capital of the Azerbaijan SSR, Baku on August 17, 1942.

Difficult childhood

The early childhood of the singer fell on the difficult post-war years. He does not remember his own father at all - he died at the front just a couple of weeks before he lived to see the long-awaited Victory. Mother soon after the war moved to the Russian province, the Siberian city of Vyshy Volochek, and returned to the stage. In peacetime, she played in the theater and had a beautiful sonorous pseudonym - Kinzhalova.

My paternal grandfather was a very famous composer, whose contribution to Azerbaijani art was highly appreciated - the State Philharmonic was named after him. Perhaps the talent was inherited by the grandson. He always sincerely loved his homeland, but with no less trepidation he was attached to Russia, having Russian roots.

After his mother's second marriage, Muslim Magomayev stayed in Baku and preferred to live with his own uncle, whose family adopted him as their own child. There he also went to a music school at the conservatory, successfully combining his studies and intensive music lessons. His main specialty was playing the piano and composition.

Muslim Magomayev with his mother

However, since childhood, the boy had a voice that was unique in beauty and strength. Of course, this could not go unnoticed at the conservatory and one of the teachers, the talented cellist Anshelevich, would offer Magomayev additional singing lessons. There was no need to upvote. Anshelevich only taught him filigree singing techniques, which later became very useful to the singer.

The beginning of the creative path

Singing captivated Magomayev, and he transferred to a music school, as there was a vocal department with well-known and experienced teachers. And a year later, his first performance took place on the prestigious stage of the Sailors' House of Culture. The young performer was very warmly received by the audience, and from that moment his whole life was one great concert.

Muslim Magomayev in his youth

After graduating from college, Magomayev joined the military song and dance ensemble in Baku. And in 1962, at the World Student Festival, he received a laureate diploma for the song "Buchenwald Alarm". Then, as part of the Azerbaijani delegation, he went to Moscow to represent national art in the Kremlin.

Since 1963, Magomayev has officially joined the troupe of the Baku Opera House, but at the same time continues to perform on large stages with solo concerts. He tours a lot, taking part in the iconic productions of The Barber of Seville and Tosca, and even receives an offer from the leadership of the Bolshoi Theater. But he chooses an independent path and a solo career.

Zvezda Magomayev

The talent was revealed in full force and the star of Muslim Magomayev lit up after his two-year internship at the famous Italian theater "La Scala", which then even more famous artists could not even dream of. His performances made a real splash, and he becomes a world-famous celebrity.

In 1966, he had his first solo tour at the world-famous Olympia in Paris, which was then repeated three years later, gathering even more spectators. The director of the theater for several months negotiated with the Mosconcert and the Ministry of Culture about signing a contract with Magomayev.

However, the Soviet government refused, arguing that Magomayev was a national treasure. Moreover, in 1967 Magomayev found himself at the center of a grandiose scandal fanned by KGB employees, as a result of which he became not only restricted to travel abroad for several years, but also received a ban on performances outside of native Azerbaijan.

At the time of this strange criminal case, he was in France and received an offer to stay there. But, fearing the persecution of his family members, he chose to return.

Years of creative isolation, he spent with benefit. During this time, he nevertheless graduated from the conservatory in the vocal class and significantly expanded his solo repertoire.

After Magomayev was acquitted on the personal instructions of Andropov, he again returned to the big stage. And in 1969-1970. receives prestigious awards in Sopot and Cannes.

For about 20 years, Magomayev has been gathering full concert halls and stadiums, performing at the best concert venues in the Soviet Union. Often he is accompanied by the main composition of the Azerbaijani pop-symphony orchestra. Magomayev's repertoire includes more than 600 works, many of which have become national hits.

Last years

Muslim Magomayev officially completed his concert activity in 1998, giving several farewell concerts in Moscow and major cities of Russia. In 1980-1990, he created a lot, creating many songs for films and musicals. He was also the host of a TV series about world music stars. He also taught a little at the Moscow Conservatory.

In the last years of his life, he had time to paint. He learned to use the Internet and began to maintain his personal website. Magomayev suffered the death of his longtime friend Heydar Aliyev especially hard.

He began to smoke even more, which caused complications of a number of existing chronic diseases. The singer passed away on 10/25/2008, having died in the arms of a loving wife, with whom he happily lived most of his life.

A solemn farewell to the great singer took place in Moscow. It seemed that the chain of people who came to pay their last respects to the great artist would never end. But after the completion of the ceremony, his body was cremated and sent to his homeland, in Baku. There he is buried next to the famous grandfather in the Alley of Honor.

The creative heritage of Magomayev is a truly great asset of Russia. Until now, people listen with bated breath to the songs performed by him. He was and remains one of the world's greatest artists. Many programs and several full-length films were shot about his creative path.

Personal life

Handsome, talented and successful, Muslim Magomayev from a young age was a favorite of women and had thousands of fans. He entered into his first marriage at a very young age - he was only 18 years old. His wife was a girl of Armenian origin Ophelia, who gave birth to his daughter Marina.

This union broke up just a year later. Marina today lives in the USA and honors the memory of her father, with whom she maintained the warmest relations throughout his life.

People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of international festivals

MUSLIM MAGOMETOVICH MAGOMAEV

The unique baritone, high artistry and sincere generosity of Muslim Magomayev conquered more than one generation of listeners. The range of its possibilities is unusually wide - operas, musicals, Neapolitan songs, vocal works of Azerbaijani and Russian composers. He became famous at the age of 19, after performing at a youth festival in Helsinki, and at 31 he was awarded the highest award - the title of People's Artist of the USSR. For many decades, the singer continues to be the idol of millions, his name has undoubtedly become a kind of symbol of our art.

Muslim Magomayev was born on August 17, 1942 in Baku in a very famous and respected family. He was named after - so he became his full namesake. Muslim did not find his famous relative alive - he died in 1937, 5 years before the birth of his grandson, but the boy was always interested in his life and work - he looked at archives, read letters, listened to music. Muslim knew that he must repeat his path - to become a composer, conductor, and pianist.

Muslim's grandfather grew up in the family of a blacksmith-gunsmith, where they loved music. Muslim Magomayev Sr. started playing the oriental accordion early, while studying at the Grozny city school he mastered the violin. He continued his education at the Transcaucasian Teacher's Seminary in the city of Gori, where he met Uzeyir Gadzhibekov; both of them subsequently became the founders of Azerbaijani professional musical creativity. In the Gori Seminary, my grandfather learned to play the oboe. As a violinist and oboist, he played in an orchestra consisting of seminary students, and at the age of 18 he became the leading musician of the orchestra and replaced the conductor. Subsequently, Magomayev Sr. created an orchestra from his students, a choir, organized concerts where folk songs, works of popular genres and his own compositions were performed, often performed as a solo violinist. Since 1911, having passed an external exam at the Tiflis Teachers' Institute, my grandfather and his family settled in Baku. Then music became the main business of his life: Muslim Magomayev Sr. made his debut as a conductor, opera composer, wrote two operas - "Shah Ismail" and "Nargiz" and became the founder of Azerbaijani classical music. Currently his name is

Grandfather Muslim and his wife Baydigul had two sons. Jr - , Muslim's father, was a very gifted man. Nowhere specifically studying music, he played the piano, sang - he had a very pleasant and sincere voice. A talented theater artist, he designed performances in Baku and Maykop. Magomet Magomayev inherited masculinity from his father, appreciated the impulse, was responsible for the word, was ambitious and always remained a romantic - just such a person was able to drop everything and go to the front. Senior Sergeant M. M. Magomayev died in the small town of Kustrin near Berlin 9 days before the end of the war. They hid from the boy for a long time that his father was no longer alive, and only at the age of 10 they told the truth.

, Aishet Akhmedovna (based on the stage of Kinzhalova), is a dramatic actress with a multifaceted role. Aishet had a good voice, she accompanied herself on the accordion - she played mostly character roles, and her musicality was an addition to her dramatic abilities. On stage, Aishet Kinzhalova was very effective - her catchy appearance and talent, apparently, to a large extent came from mixing blood: her father was a Turk, her mother was half Adyghe, half Russian. Aishet Akhmedovna was born in Maikop and received her theatrical education in Nalchik. She left for Baku with her future husband, where they got married. When Magomet Muslimovich went to the front, Aishet Akhmedovna lived in the Magomaev family, and after his death she returned to Maikop. An extraordinary person, she was tormented by a thirst for a change of place.

forever became native to Muslim, and the uncle himself replaced his father and grandfather. The boy knew that for him he was the closest person in the world, and Uncle Jamal knew how to love. He had such a heart - everything fit there, both strength and weakness, and severity was a cover for kindness. An engineer by education, he had a penchant for the exact sciences. Having inherited musicality from his father, he played the piano without receiving a special musical education. He liked to press the pedal very much so that it was loud, although Muslim taught: "Play quietly and with feeling." Uncle Jamal valued his honor above all else, which became the Magomayev family commandment.

Nanny Aunt Grunya often took Muslim for a walk ... They went to the Orthodox Church. The boy forever remembered the smell of incense, the flickering of candles, the splendor of the Orthodox church, and the Russian church seemed like a fabulous tower. At night, the nanny told him good stories. Later, when Muslim learned to read, he himself read Pushkin's fairy tales, learned about his nanny Arina Rodionovna. As he got older, he became interested in the books of Jules Verne. Muslim was very interested in everything connected with the sea - Captain Nemo, his "Nautilus". At home, he arranged his own "Nautilus" - a whole corner in the room where he made ships. In adulthood, Magomayev became interested in science fiction, but his love for fairy tales remained forever - the famous singer has collected all the films of Walt Disney.

At a time when Muslim's peers were playing with typewriters and tin soldiers, he set up his grandfather's music stand, picked up a pencil and led an imaginary orchestra. At first they wanted to teach Muslim to play the violin. Like many children, he was very curious: he broke mechanical toys to see how they worked. This "technical creativity" was not forgotten - Muslim Magometovich even now amuses himself with modern electronic "toys" in his free time. When relatives, looking at him playing on the computer, say: "Like a boy!.", - he is not offended, because he is sure that if something childish, naive disappears in a person, this means that old age has come. But then the grandfather's violin suffered from Muslim's childhood curiosity: the boy decided to see what was inside, and the instrument broke. It was glued together, and at present the relic is in one of the Baku museums...

Muslim's path along the path of his grandfather-composer was decided to start from the piano. was big, and Muslim was small, but they got along: from the age of 3 the boy already picked up melodies, and composed the first one at the age of 5 and remembered it for the rest of his life. Subsequently, Muslim Magomayev and the poet Anatoly Gorokhov made the song "The Nightingale Hour" out of it.

In 1949, Muslim was sent to a ten-year music school at the Baku Conservatory. There was only one criterion for admission - natural talent. Magomayev remembered excellent teachers - Arkady Lvovich, who taught geography and English, and Aron Izrailevich, who taught music. For the first time, they started talking about Muslim's unique voice when he was 8 years old - together with the choir, he diligently deduced "Sleep my joy, sleep." When the teacher asked everyone to shut up, Magomayev continued to sing, not hearing his voice - still childish, but unusually clear and strong. Then he did not suspect that this first solo was a stepping stone to unprecedented success. Muslim Magometovich is sure that he inherited his voice from his mother, and musicality from the Magomayevs. The singer was greatly influenced by the atmosphere of the family in which he grew up, the music school, and later the conservatory and the opera house.

When Muslim was 9 years old, his mother took him to Vyshny Volochok, where she served in the theater. He forever fell in love with this discreet, cozy Russian town, its simple, gullible people. Here the boy first learned what the Russian soul is. There he continued his studies at the music school with V. M. Shulgina. She was a wonderful woman, a wise, patient teacher. In addition to school, she worked as a musical designer in the city drama theater, selected and processed music for performances and directed the choir in one of the educational institutions. When Valentina Mikhailovna designed the musical play "Angelo" by A. S. Pushkin, Muslim sat in the orchestra pit next to the piano and was thrilled with happiness - because he loves music, the theater with its special dusty-sweet smell, with rustles and fuss behind the scenes , with long rehearsals.

Interest in the theater soon resulted in the fact that Muslim captivated the guys with the idea of ​​​​organizing a puppet show. By that time, he had already sculpted a little, and it was not difficult for him to make puppets for a small performance of "Petrushka". The guys took out a mailbox, made a stage out of it, wrote the text themselves, and the puppets on strings played a short performance for about ten minutes. The children wanted to have everything, like in a real theater: they even took "money" for tickets - candy wrappers.

Muslim lived in Vyshny Volochek for about a year and, by the decision of his mother, returned to Baku to continue his musical education. Soon, Aishet Akhmedovna married a second time, she had a new family, and Muslim had a brother Yuri and sister Tatyana.

The main work of his life began with an Italian film , in which the great Neapolitan was voiced by Mario del Monaco. At Uncle Muslim's dacha, every day he could watch the best films - trophy, old and new, which had not yet been released on the screen. It was there that he saw "Favorite Arias", "Clowns", "Tarzan", films with Lolita Torres. His childhood was not only fun, but also meaningful. Muslim continued his studies at a music school, and singing became his hobby.

He listened to records left over from his grandfather - Caruso, Titto Ruffo, Gigli, Battistini. Listening to recordings of vocal works, he analyzed bass, baritone, tenor parts. He took claviers and sang everything, compared what famous singers did with the way he himself sang. By the age of 14, Muslim had a voice, but he was embarrassed to sing in front of strangers and hid his secret from his family and teachers. He was not shy only about classmates, showed popular characters from the children's film "Pinocchio", funny sang the song "My midget" from the film about Gulliver.

Then no one could have imagined that this extraordinary talent would be useful to Muslim in life and he would brilliantly voice the Detective, the Troubadour and the Gypsy in the beloved cartoon At a school concert, Muslim sang Kara Karaev's "Song of the Caspian Oil Workers" - 20 years later he sang it again as a professional singer at government concerts. And then, at school, he deduced in a piercing voice: "The song of courage floats on the expanse of the sea." This was the first performance of Muslim Magomayev on the big stage of the Baku Conservatory.

The famous singer Bulbul lived on the same floor with the Magomayev family in a large house, which was called the "house of artists" in Baku. Their apartments were adjacent, and Muslim heard the chants of this legendary performer. With his son Polad, they played in the same yard, and at home they knocked over the wall. As representatives of the "supreme authority" of the court, like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, they competed who was more dexterous "tarzan", jumping from tree to tree. As a child, Muslim became interested in astronomy. Together with Polad, they even made a pipe to see if there are spots on the moon. Polad was younger than Muslim and studied in a different class, but together they constantly designed the school wall newspaper: even then Magomayev felt a penchant for drawing.

Together with the guys, Muslim created a secret society of music lovers. They gathered at his friend, Tolya Babel, a passionate admirer of I. S. Kozlovsky and the Bolshoi Theater, listened to vocal recordings, jazz music. Gradually moved from listening to practice. Then Magomayev had many musical tastes: he loved classical music, jazz, and pop music. The guys organized a small jazz band, played at home with clarinetist Igor Aktyamov. Muslim gathered a circle of string players and arranged Figaro's cavatina for two violins, viola, cello and piano. Later, having learned about the writing talents of Muslim Magomayev, he was transferred to the class of children's creativity, where he began to write plays and romances based on poems by A. S. Pushkin.

When the school learned about how Magomayev sings, he became a vocal illustrator at the lessons of musical literature - he sang arias and romances. Since there was no vocal department at the music school, Muslim was assigned to the best teacher of the conservatory - Susanna Arkadievna. He came to study at her home, and, to the delight of the student, his neighbor Rauf Atakishiyev, an excellent singer who served in the Baku Opera House, dropped in on the lessons. Subsequently, Muslim sang with him on the opera stage more than once. The talented student was also noticed by the excellent cellist, professor of the Baku Conservatory V. Ts. Anshelevich. He began to give lessons to him free of charge, for the sake of love for the cause and creative interest. Anshelevich did not interfere with the vocals, did not set the voice, but showed how to fillet it. Lessons with a cellist professor were not in vain: Muslim learned to overcome vocal technical riffs. The experience gained in the classroom with Vladimir Tsezarevich came in handy when Magomayev began working on the part of Figaro in the Barber of Seville.

Magomayev could not continue his studies at the music school. Singing captivated him so much that all other subjects began to distract him, and he moved to a music school, which gave him a meeting with the excellent accompanist T. I. Kretingen. Tamara Isidorovna was looking for unknown romances for Muslim, works of ancient composers. With her, Magomayev often performed at the evenings of the vocal department on the stage of the Philharmonic. In the opera class, they prepared an excerpt from "Mazepa" by P. I. Tchaikovsky - this was Muslim's first opera performance. And then came the student performance "The Barber of Seville". Life in the school was in full swing, concert practice was encouraged, the guys performed a lot. Magomayev forever remembered his romantic mood, as he was doing what he loved, and teachers did not limit the freedom of students.

During these years, Muslim married his classmate Ophelia, they had a daughter, Marina, but later the family broke up. Marina currently lives in America - she is a very close person to Muslim Magometovich. Once her grandfather, an academic chemist, persuaded her to study geodesy and cartography. Although Marina graduated from school as a pianist and was destined for a great future as a musician, she chose a different path. Now Muslim Magometovich has friendly relations with his daughter, and he endlessly appreciates this.

When Muslim was accepted into the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Baku Air Defense District, he began touring the Caucasus. His repertoire included pop songs, opera classics, arias from operettas. Once, when Muslim came from Grozny on vacation, he was summoned to the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Azerbaijan and informed about his upcoming trip to the VIII World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki. The large delegation of the USSR from the republic included the orchestra of radio and television of Azerbaijan under the direction of T. Akhmedov and the only soloist - Muslim Magomayev. The Helsinki Festival began in Moscow with the Frunze Central House of the Soviet Army, where future participants gathered to rehearse the cultural program. Magomayev liked the songs, and according to these positive reviews, he foresaw success.

In Finland, with the orchestra of T. Akhmedov, Muslim performed on the streets, in the halls. For some reason, on Finnish soil, he sang like never before. After the end of the festival, the first secretary of the Komsomol Central Committee S. P. Pavlov presented medals to the most distinguished participants. Among them was Muslim Magomayev. Arriving in Moscow, Muslim saw in the Ogonyok magazine his photograph with a note: "A young man from Baku conquers the world." And in the autumn he was invited to the Central Television with the orchestra of T. Akhmedov. After the transfer, Magomayev began to be recognized - this was the first recognition, but real fame came later. After Helsinki, Muslim returned to Baku and entered the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater as an intern.

The turning point in the singer's biography was March 26, 1963. The Decade of Culture and Art of Azerbaijan was held in Moscow - the best art groups of the republic, recognized masters and young people came to the capital. Concerts in which Muslim participated were held in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. He was received very warmly. The young singer performed couplets of Mephistopheles from "Faust" by Gounod, Hasan Khan's aria from the national opera "Kor-oglu" by U. Gadzhibekov, "Do the Russians want wars". Something happened to the audience when he took the stage in the last televised concert and sang the song "Buchenwald alarm", which shocked the audience in his beautiful performance, and Figaro's cavatina. After the cavatina, performed in Italian, the audience began to chant and shout "bravo". In the box sat E. A. Furtseva and I. S. Kozlovsky, who also applauded continuously. Muslim nodded to conductor Niyazi and repeated the cavatina in Russian.

On March 30, 1963, TASS information from a concert of Azerbaijani artists appeared in the newspapers, where it was reported: "The biggest, one might say, rare success went to Muslim Magomayev. His excellent vocal abilities, brilliant technique give reason to say that a richly gifted young artist came to the opera ". The press responded very actively to Magomayev's success - enthusiastic ratings, analysis of the performance, but the most expensive for the singer was the review of the ticketers of the Kremlin Palace, who wrote on the concert program: "We, ticketers, unwitting witnesses of the delight and disappointment of the audience, rejoice at your success in such a wonderful hall We hope to hear you and your Figaro on our stage again. Big ship - big voyage". After a performance at the decade, which had such a resonance, Muslim Magomayev was offered to perform solo at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall. Subsequently, life developed in such a way that the singer often had to do something first: to record opera arias at the Melodiya company in the studio (in the building of the Anglican Church on Stankevich Street), accompanied by a symphony orchestra conducted by Niyazi, with sound engineer V. Babushkin to master digital recording .

On November 10, 1963, many people flocked to the building of the Moscow Philharmonic. Only later did Muslim become aware that there were so many people who wanted to go to his concert that the fans demolished the front door to the lobby. Starting to sing, he managed to notice that there was a full house in the hall and people were standing in the aisles. went better than the singer expected. Bach, Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Gadzhibekov. Instead of the 16 things announced in the program, Muslim sang 23 that evening: in an unplanned third part, he performed Italian and modern songs. The lights had already been turned off, and a crowd of fans was still standing at the forefront. Muslim sat down at the piano - and it was time for the stage: "Come prima", "Guarda che Luna", A. Celentano's twist "Twenty-four thousand kisses". Subsequently, Magomayev began to build concerts in this way: from classical works and pop numbers. A guitar, drums and bass joined the symphony orchestra - and the orchestra turned into a pop-symphony one. Demanding K. I. Shulzhenko recalled: "As soon as Magomayev appeared, it became a phenomenon. He was head and shoulders above all the young. Everyone liked him madly." It was on that day that Muslim Magomayev felt that doubts had been overcome and youthful timidity would never return.

In 1964, Muslim Magomayev left for an internship at the La Scala Theater in Milan along with Vladimir Atlantov, Janis Zaber, Anatoly Solovyanenko and Nikolai Kondratyuk. Italy is a country of countless treasures of art, the birthplace of bel canto, and this not only had a beneficial effect on Muslim's performing abilities, but also significantly expanded his spiritual horizon. He forever remained a supporter of the Italian school of singing, admiring the work of Beniamino Gigli, Gino Becky, Tito Gobbi, Mario del Monaco. Magomayev himself was superbly successful in the arias of Figaro and Scarpia, Mephistopheles and Onegin. In Milan, Muslim had a favorite record store, where he purchased records. During the internship, he met the director of the theater, Signor Antonio Giringelli, who treated the young singer with special attention and sympathy. Vocal lessons were conducted by maestro Genarro Barra, a famous singer with enviable energy and zest for life. Enrico Piazza, who once assisted the great Arturo Toscanini, became a teacher-tutor for learning opera parts. During Muslim's internship, he worked at La Scala as a consultant and accompanist. For classes, Magomayev chose the opera "The Barber of Seville".

The performance "The Girl from the West" by G. Puccini left an unforgettable impression on the singer - the young and already famous Franco Corelli performed in the main part of the cowboy Johnson. The performance of Giuseppe di Stefano also left a vivid impression. It was in Milan that Muslim heard Mirella Freni in La Boheme, met Robertino Loretti and former Italian partisans, chief among whom were the dentist Signor Pirasso and Nikola Muchacha. The hospitable family of Luigi Longo, the son of the secretary of the Communist Party of Italy, also took care of the Soviet interns in a friendly manner. During the second internship at La Scala, Muslim prepared the part of Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca. Vladimir Atlantov, Hendrik Krumm, Virgilius Noreika and Vagan Mirakyan became his colleagues during the trip. On April 1, 1965, the trainees gave a concert on the small stage of the theater - "La Piccolo Scala". Muslim sang "Along the Piterskaya" among other songs. The hall was full, received wonderful. So on a Russian note to the cries of the Italian "bravo" his Italian epic ended. On the basis of the records brought from Italy, Magomayev made a series of programs about Italian opera singers for the Yunost radio station and recorded with the State Chamber Orchestra of Azerbaijan under the direction of Nazim Rzayev a whole record of ancient music with works by composers of the 16th-18th centuries.

In the summer of 1966, Muslim Magomayev first came to France, where he was to perform on the stage of the famous Olympia Theater as part of a large group of Soviet artists. The Russian Thought newspaper wrote: “The young singer Muslim Magomayev was sent from Baku and represents Azerbaijan. He performs the last number, and the audience does not want to let him go, gives him a more than well-deserved ovation. But when Magomayev sings Figaro’s aria with an exceptionally beautiful baritone - in Italian, with excellent diction, excellent pronunciation and appropriate liveliness, the audience literally begins to go berserk.Then he sits down at the piano and, excellently accompanying himself, sings in Russian "Stenka Razin" and "Moscow Evenings" - two things, it would seem, filled set on edge even among the French, but everything is interesting in his performance "... After 3 years, Magomayev , but already with the Leningrad Music Hall.

While in Baku, Muslim graduated from the conservatory in a year. He studied easily, perfectly harmonized melodies, and for the piano exam he prepared Mozart's Sonata in C major, arranged for four hands, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C sharp minor, the first two parts of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and played the program in such a way that the members of the commission said: we have the feeling that we are taking the exam not at the vocal department, but at the piano department." People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR Muslim Magomayev was attended by so many people that no hall could accommodate everyone. I had to open windows and doors, people listened to their idol from the street. At his final exam, he sang the works of Handel, Stradella, Mozart, Schumann, Grieg, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff.

Soon, Muslim Magomayev was again in France - in Cannes, where the next International Festival of Recording and Music Publications (MIDEM) was held. Muslim participated in the competition in the section "Pop music". The records he recorded sold a fantastic circulation of 4 and a half million copies. The singer from the USSR received the "Golden Disc". In total, Muslim Magometovich has two such disks - he received the second one at the 4th MIDEM in early 1970.

At the end of the summer of 1969 in The IX International Pop Song Festival took place. Muslim Magomayev was sent from the USSR. For the singing competition, he chose the song of Krzysztof Sadowski "Exactly on this day", presenting it as a beautiful melodic song in the Italian spirit, and received the 1st prize. At the 2nd song contest of the participating countries, Muslim performed "Heart in the Snow" by A. Babajanyan. The song was received excellently, but according to the conditions of the competition, one performer could not receive two awards at once. Having received the 1st prize as a performer, Muslim Magomayev broke the tradition of the Sopot festival, becoming the second singer in the history of the competition to win the main award. He visited Sopot once again as a guest at the 10th anniversary festival held in 1970.

During trips to Poland, Muslim looked for his father's grave. And with the assistance of the Society of Polish-Soviet Friendship, they managed to find a mass grave in the city of Chojna, Szczecin Voivodeship. 27 years after the death of his father, the son was able to visit his grave - this was in the spring of 1972. And on August 17, 1972, a friend of Muslim Magometovich Robert Rozhdestvensky presented him with an invaluable gift on his thirtieth birthday - the poem "Father and Son". Later, composer Mark Fradkin wrote music for him, but Muslim did not perform this song - it was personal, not for the public. He dedicated a song to his father, also written to the verses of his friend - Gennady Kozlovsky. entered the film "Muslim Magomayev Sings".

Another film is dedicated to Muslim Magometovich - , which is based on a recording of Neapolitan songs. Together with A. A. Babajanyan they created wonderful songs - "Waiting", "Queen of Beauty", "My Destiny". Magomayev was also gifted with his songs by another old friend, O. B. Feltsman. "The Return of the Romance", "With Love for a Woman", "Lullaby", "Loneliness of a Woman" were remembered by the listeners. Muslim Magomayev has always been interested in giving songs a new sound. One of the first he performed in a new way "Dark Night", "Scoots full of mullets", "Three years I dreamed of you", "What is so disturbing the heart", "Merry Wind" and "Captain". The famous singer had a chance to work with the most wonderful performers. In "Tosca" he sang with Maria Bieshu, in "The Barber of Seville" - with the prima donna of the Kirov Theater Galina Kovaleva. When Magomayev performed Scarpia in Leningrad, E.E. Nesterenko sang the part of the Jailer.

In the Baku Philharmonic, which bears the name of his grandfather, Muslim Magometovich met Tamara Ilinichnaya Sinyavskaya. Perhaps there was some kind of sign in this: the Philharmonic is like the Magomayevs' family home, in which the spirit of their ancestors lives. Even before Sinyavskaya left for Italy, Magomayev became a regular at the Bolshoi Theater - he listened to all the performances with her participation, gave the largest and most beautiful bouquets ... And then there was a test of feelings of separation - Tamara Sinyavskaya left for an internship in Italy for six months, and Muslim called her every day. It was at that moment that "Melody" arose ... When A. Pakhmutova and N. Dobronravov showed Magomayev a new song, he liked it immediately, and after a few days it was recorded. Tamara Ilyinichna was one of the first to hear her on the phone in distant Italy. Muslim Magometovich admits that he could not marry another woman - he and Tamara Ilyinichnaya have true love, common interests and one thing ...

Muslim Magomayev has always had full-fledged foreign tours. Of the Soviet pop artists through the State Concert, he was the first to go to the USA. They toured big cities: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. The audience received the artist very warmly. Muslim Magometovich often visited this country in connection with work on a book about the legendary Mario Lanza. When he conducted a cycle of 5 programs on the radio dedicated to the work of this great artist, and shared with the audience his plans to write a book about him, many selfless helpers responded. In 1989, Muslim Magomayev and Tamara Sinyavskaya received an invitation to take part in the annual evening dedicated to the date of the singer's death (October 7, 1959). They met with unusual joy - for the first time in 30 years after Lanz's death, artists from the Soviet Union participated in the evening of his memory.

All his love for Lanza, the great singer of the 20th century, Magomayev expressed in , written about him in the USSR, which was published in 1993 by the Muzyka publishing house. After the stories about Mario Lanza on the radio, many letters of thanks came from radio listeners, and it was decided to continue the cycle. There were broadcasts about other outstanding singers - Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano. After some time, Magomayev was offered to do the same, only for television, - this is how with Svyatoslav Belza "Visiting Muslim Magomayev". They talked about Mario del Monaco, Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli. The last work in this cycle was a story about the great conductor Arturo Toscanini.

The discography of Muslim Magomayev includes 45 records, dozens of recordings published in the popular music magazine Krugozor, as well as 15 CDs: Thank You (1995), Arias from Operas and Musicals. Neapolitan Songs (1996), Stars Soviet pop music. Muslim Magomayev. The best "(2001), "Love is my song. Dreamland" (2001), "Memories of A. Babadzhanyan and R. Rozhdestvensky" (series "Stars that do not go out", 2002), " Muslim Magomayev. Selected "(2002), "Arias from operas" (2002), "Songs of Italy" (2002), "Concert in the hall named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, 1963" (2002), "Great performers of the XX century. Muslim Magomayev" (2002), "With love for a woman" (2003), "Performances, musicals, movies" (2003), "Rhapsody of love" (2004), "Muslim Magomayev. Improvisations" (2004), "Muslim Magomayev. Concerts, concerts, concerts" (2005).

At one time, Muslim Magomayev gave preference to the stage and brought a new rhythm and style to it. As is often the case with talented people, the famous singer is multi-talented: he is not only an excellent singer and actor, but also writes music for theater and cinema, composes songs, Muslim Magometovich has been drawing since childhood, most often according to his mood. Being in Baku in the summer, he painted sunsets on the sea day after day - behind the easel his soul rests. Muslim Magomayev managed to realize another old dream - to create a pop orchestra. At first he worked with the famous big band led by L. Merabov, and then gathered the best jazz musicians. The Azerbaijan State Variety Symphony Orchestra had a base in the Moscow Palace of Culture of the Likhachev Automobile Plant - the musicians gave 20-30 concerts a month.

Another hobby of Muslim Magomayev is film music, which he writes mainly for the films of Eldar Kuliev. In the mid-1980s, the film director conceived a film about the poet and thinker of the Middle Ages Nizami and invited Muslim to this role. Filmed in Azerbaijan and Samarkand. it turned out beautiful - everything in it is exquisite, ornamentally beautiful, truly oriental. Poetry, philosophy, fluidity of thoughts, actions, reflections on life, love and death. Muslim Magomayev for the first time played the role of his great compatriot in the cinema.

In the mid-1980s, the director of the Yaroslavl Drama Theater named after F. Volkov, Gleb Drozdov, suggested that Magomayev write music for the play "The Bird Gives Birth to the Bird." Muslim Magometovich wrote a song that received the same name as the play, which he later recorded on the radio. The premiere of the performance was a success. Subsequently, Drozdov invited Magomayev to write music for the play based on "The Tale of Igor's Campaign". Muslim Magometovich, in the depths of his soul, long wanted to test his strength in the Russian theme, and as a result, interesting musical numbers were obtained. Calling to each other, weaving into a Russian wreath, three themes sounded: the lament of Yaroslavna, which was recorded by Tamara Sinyavskaya, the song of Boyan (aka the Lead of the performance) performed by Vladimir Atlantov, the aria of Prince Igor, which was recorded by Muslim Magomayev. The premiere took place in August 1985. The performance was not on the stage of the theater, but near the walls of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery, where in the 18th century a manuscript of "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" was discovered. These walls have become the best decoration.

Everyone loves Muslim Magomayev. At one time, L. I. Brezhnev listened to his song "Bella, Chao" with pleasure, and Shahin Farah, after her official visit to Baku, invited the singer to take part in the celebration of the anniversary of the coronation of the Shah of Iran. Good and warm relations for many years connected Muslim Magomayev with the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Azerbaijan SSR G. A. Aliyev. Muslim Magometovich was even elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan. He received letters with various requests, sent them to the appropriate authorities, tried to help people. Living in Moscow, he specially came to sessions in Baku.

The life principle of Muslim Magomayev is "Don't wait, don't be afraid, don't ask." To all other virtues, it is necessary to add the fact that the soul of Magomayev does not get tired of working. He maintains contact with his many fans via the Internet, likes to "conjure" his recordings in his home studio. For his anniversary in 2002, a collection of 14 CDs was released, giving an idea of ​​how much the great singer did for our art.

Muslim Magomayev is proud of his homeland, loves it and always says that Azerbaijan is his father and Russia is his mother. He never forgot both his Baku courtyard and the boulevard on the shores of the warm Caspian Sea. Muslim Magometovich often comes to Baku as to the holy land. For Baku people, their city is not just a place of birth, it is something more. Baku citizen is a special character, individuality, a special lifestyle. Having been born, having received a good education, taking the first steps in the profession in the beautiful land of the great Nizami, Khagani, Vurgun, Gadzhibekov, Bul-Bul, Niyazi, Karaev, Beibutov, Amirov, he came to Moscow very young, and she instantly made him famous and surrounded by love.

Robert Rozhdestvensky wrote: “I attended many concerts in which Muslim Magomayev sang, and there was never a case when the presenter had time to give the full name and surname of the artist. Usually, after the name “Muslim”, such applause is heard that, despite the most powerful speakers and all the efforts of the presenter, the name "Magomaev" is hopelessly drowning in an enthusiastic roar. They are used to it. As they are used to the fact that his name has long become a kind of landmark of our art. And also to the fact that any opera aria, any song in his performance is always an expected miracle."

In 1997, one of the minor planets of the solar system, known to astronomers under the code "1974 SP1", was named after "4980 Magomaev".

M. M. Magomayev was awarded the Orders of Honor (2002), the Red Banner of Labor (1971), Friendship of Peoples (1980), the Orders of Azerbaijan "Istiglal" (2002) and "Shohrat" (1997), the badge of honor "For services to Polish culture" , breastplate "Miner's Glory" III degree. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of M. V. Lomonosov of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement Problems of the Russian Federation. In 2005, he was awarded the Peter the Great National Prize for his outstanding personal contribution to the development of Russian culture. Is a Knight of the Order awarded for outstanding achievements in the development of Russian culture.

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The biography of the only daughter of the famous singer Muslim Magomayev, Marina Magomaeva-Kozlovskaya, is of interest to many fans of the People's Artist. She currently resides in the USA. Marina Magomaeva's husband, Alexander Kozlovsky, is a musician. Marina and Alexander have a son, Alain.

Biography of Marina Magomaeva

Marina was born in Baku. Her parents met in the first year of the Baku Muses. schools. Muslim passionately fell in love with his classmate, the beautiful girl Ophelia Veliyeva, an Azerbaijani by nationality. The students were 18 at the time. Their parents did not even suspect that the children had decided to get married.

“My carefree youth is over,” Muslim Magomayev wrote in his memoirs. “Ophelia and I got married. I lived with Ophelia's family. Her father, who worked at the Academy of Sciences, as an intelligent person, did not interfere in our relations. He was a geodesist, a modest and very delicate man, but his mother-in-law ... ".

A young guy, a student, had to feed his family himself. The young man was hired by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Baku Air Defense District, but he constantly heard reproaches from his wife's relatives that he was a bad husband. “I didn’t want to return home from the tour, and my character didn’t allow me to play the role of a good family man.”

Soon Magomayev leaves for Grozny. Successfully performs in the Philharmonic. However, even here his financial situation did not improve. “In terrible hotels, my wife and I fed bedbugs ...,” Magomayev recalled that time. Ofelia, having become pregnant, went to her parents in Baku. After some time, Muslim learned about the birth of his daughter and returned to Baku, settling with his distant relative.

“In 1962, our daughter was born, whom we named Marina, but our personal life never got better,” Muslim Magometovich said sadly. He chose the name of his daughter not by chance. As a thirteen-year-old teenager, he fell in love with the girl Marina and composed a song about her, which he successfully performed at school parties. This single became a hit in the seventies.

Marina speaks of her parents' divorce as a mutual decision. Ofelia realized that her personal life with Muslim had no future. After the divorce, the singer decided that his daughter would never be in need. The girl graduated from a regular and music school. She played the piano remarkably, but she did not dare to connect her fate with music.

Marina was always close with her father, and Muslim greatly appreciated the friendship with her daughter. He fondly said that he had a wonderful daughter. Her grandfather convinced the girl to study geography. Despite the fact that Marina was a very talented pianist, she graduated with honors from a music school, she did not become a professional musician.

The second wife of Muslim Magomayev, Tamara Sinyavskaya, had no children and treated Marina like her own daughter. It was she who introduced Marina to her future husband, musician Alexander Kozlovsky. They met in Baku, and then the girl went to his concert in the USA, where Alexander proposed to her.

This radically changed not only her life, but also the biography of the family, since her mother, Ofelia, left for the USA with her. However, according to Marina, she did not have a passionate desire to move to America, but for the sake of her beloved and her family, she decided to take this step.

Personal life of Marina Magomaeva

Before getting married, Alexander Kozlovsky came to the future father-in-law to ask for the hand of his daughter. It was, by his own admission, a very important conversation, when smart questions were asked and wise advice was given. “Marina has my character,” Muslim Magomayev said about his daughter. - She honed him like a woman and as a result he turned out even more trenchant than mine ... "

Marina Muslim Magomayev knew her husband from childhood: his dad, Gennady Kozlovsky, was known as a great friend of the singer, as a result of their joint work, two wonderful singles appeared. Then Gennady left for America, taking his family with him. Alik and Marina talked on the phone for a long time, he invited her to his concerts, and everything ended with a wedding.

Marina Magomaeva always speaks with warmth of her father, who often came to visit them in Ohio, along with his wife Tamara Sinyavskaya. They sent the children video recordings of their performances, which are carefully kept by Marina until now. Her son Alain, although at a distance, knew his famous grandfather. They constantly communicated, and he always listens to his songs.

Muslim Magometovich (Mohammed ogly) Magomayev (Azerb. Müslüm Məhəmməd oğlu Maqomayev). Born on August 17, 1942 in Baku - died on October 25, 2008 in Moscow. Soviet, Azerbaijani and Russian opera and pop singer (baritone), composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1973).

Father - Magomet Magomayev, artist, son of the famous Azerbaijani composer, founder of Azerbaijani classical music Muslim Magomayev (now the musical philharmonic in Baku bears his name). Father's mother (Baghdagul-Jamal) was a Tatar.

Mother - Aishet Akhmedovna (stage name - Kinzhalova), dramatic actress. Her father was a Turk, and her mother had Adyghe and Russian roots.

Muslim Magomayev considered himself an Azerbaijani. He said: "Azerbaijan is my father, Russia is my mother."

Muslim Magomayev hardly remembered his father - he died at the front near Berlin, three days before the end of the war.

Mother, having lost her husband, chose a theatrical career and went to Vyshny Volochek, then to Murmansk, where she worked in the Murmansk Regional Drama Theater and remarried. On the mother's side, Muslim has a brother, Yuri, and a sister, Tatyana.

Muslim grew up in the family of his uncle Jamal Muslimovich Magomayev.

The singer said about his childhood: “The post-war fate of my mother turned out to be such that she found another family. I can’t blame her for anything. She is a dramatic actress, she always wandered around the cities of Russia, never working for a long time in any theater.

My father's brother Jamaletdin Magomaev and his wife Maria Ivanovna became real parents for me. They were smart people and amazingly read a lot. Orders in our family were strictly observed. Uncle was a convinced communist, honest and incorruptible. At a time when my tutor held high government positions, an unworthy nephew was asked at school from time to time not to wear a pioneer tie. This did not upset me: the tie seemed to me, first of all, an uncomfortable thing, it choked me and all the time strove to get into the inkwell with its ends.

Despite the fact that my uncle was a high-ranking person, I was not spoiled. I had toys, normal conditions for studying and playing music, but no frills. I remember when I started begging my aunt for money, she refused: "When you grow up, you will earn money yourself, then you will understand how the money comes."

He studied at the music school at the Baku Conservatory (now the secondary special music school named after Bulbul) in piano and composition.

The talented student was noticed by the professor of the conservatory cellist Vladimir Anshelevich, who began to give him lessons. Anshelevich did not set the voice, but showed how to fillet it. The experience gained in the classes with the cellist professor came in handy later when Magomayev began working on the part of Figaro in The Barber of Seville.

Since there was no vocal department at the school, Muslim was admitted to the Baku Musical College named after Asaf Zeynalli in 1956, studied with the teacher Alexander Milovanov and his long-term accompanist Tamara Kretingen, which he graduated in 1959.

His first performance took place in Baku, in the House of Culture of Baku Sailors, where fifteen-year-old Muslim went in secret from his family. The family was against Muslim's early performances because of the risk of losing his voice. However, Muslim himself decided that his voice had already been formed and that he was not in danger of losing his voice.

In 1961, Magomayev made his debut in the professional Song and Dance Ensemble of the Baku Military District. In 1962, Magomayev became a laureate of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki for his performance of the song "Buchenwald Alarm".

All-Union fame came after his performance in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses at the final concert of the Azerbaijani Art Festival in 1962.

The first solo concert of Muslim Magomayev took place on November 10, 1963 in the Concert Hall. Tchaikovsky.

In 1963, Magomayev became a soloist with the Azerbaijan Opera and Ballet Theater named after. Akhundov, continues to perform on the concert stage.

In 1964-1965 he trained at the Milan theater "La Scala" (Italy).

In the 1960s, he performed in the largest cities of the Soviet Union in the performances of Tosca and The Barber of Seville (Maria Bieshu was among the partners). He did not accept the offer to join the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater, not wanting to limit himself to opera performances.

In 1966 and 1969, Muslim Magomayev's tour of the famous Olympia theater in Paris was a great success. The director of Olympia, Bruno Coquatrix, offered Magomayev a contract for a year, promising to make him an international star. The singer seriously considered such an opportunity, but the Ministry of Culture of the USSR refused, citing the fact that Magomayev should perform at government concerts.

In the late 1960s, having learned that the Rostov Philharmonic was in financial difficulties, and the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Don Cossacks did not have decent costumes for the planned tour in Moscow, Magomayev agreed to help by performing in Rostov-on-Don at a crowded local stadium, accommodating 45 thousand people. It was planned that Magomayev would perform in only one department, but he spent more than two hours on stage. For this performance, he was paid 606 rubles, instead of 202 rubles, which were then laid down by law for speaking in one department. The administrators assured him that such a rate was quite legal and approved by the Ministry of Culture, but this turned out not to be the case. it speech became the reason for initiating a criminal case through the OBHSS.

When this was reported to Magomayev, who spoke at the Paris Olympia, the emigrant circles offered him to stay, but Magomayev chose to return to the USSR, because he could not imagine life away from his homeland and understood that emigration could put his relatives in a difficult situation in the USSR.

Although the proceedings did not reveal any guilt of Magomayev, who signed for the money received in the official statement, nevertheless, the USSR Ministry of Culture forbade Magomayev to perform tours outside of Azerbaijan. Using his free time, Magomayev passed all the exams and graduated from the Baku Conservatory in the singing class of Shovket Mammadova only in 1968. The disgrace of Magomayev ended after the chairman of the KGB of the USSR personally called Ekaterina Furtseva and demanded that Magomayev perform at a concert on the occasion of the anniversary of the KGB, saying that everything was clean with Magomayev through the KGB.

Muslim Magomayev - Wedding

In 1969, at the International Festival in Sopot, Magomayev received the 1st prize, and in Cannes in 1969 and 1970 at the International Festival of Recording and Music Publications (MIDEM) - the Golden Disc, for multi-million copies of records.

In 1973, at the age of 31, Magomayev received the title of People's Artist of the USSR, which followed the title of People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR, which he received in 1971.

From 1975 to 1989, Magomayev was the artistic director of the Azerbaijan State Variety Symphony Orchestra, which he created, with which he toured extensively in the USSR.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Magomayev's popularity in the USSR was boundless: stadiums of many thousands, endless tours throughout the Soviet Union, and frequent television appearances. Records with his songs came out in huge circulation. To this day, he remains an idol for many generations of people in the post-Soviet space.

He toured a lot abroad: France, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, Finland, Canada, Iran, etc.

Magomayev's concert repertoire included more than 600 works (arias, romances, songs). Muslim Magomayev is the author of more than 20 songs, music for performances, musicals and films. He was also the author and host of a series of TV programs about the life and work of the stars of the world opera and pop scene, including the American singer Mario Lanza, and wrote a book about this singer.

He acted in several films.

Muslim Magomayev in the film "Nizami"

In 1997, in honor of Magomaev, one of the minor planets of the solar system, known to astronomers under the code 1974 SP1, was named after 4980 Magomaev.

In 1998, Muslim Magomayev decided to stop his creative activity. The last years of his life he lived in Moscow, refusing concert performances. He was engaged in painting, corresponded with his fans through his personal website.

Regarding the termination of performances, Magomayev said: “God has determined a certain time for each voice, for each talent, and there is no need to step over it,” although there have never been problems with the voice. For many years he was close friends with Heydar Aliyev, whose death in 2003 he was very worried about, he became very withdrawn and began to sing even less often. The last years of his life he suffered from heart disease, since his youth he was troubled by his lungs, despite this, according to Tamara Sinyavskaya, the singer sometimes smoked three packs of cigarettes a day.

During the life of Heydar Aliyev, Magomayev said that thanks to him (Aliyev), art flourished in Azerbaijan. However, after the death of the former president, Magomayev's relationship with the then Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan, Polad Bulbul-oglu (he was in this post until 2006), with whom Magomayev was once friends, finally deteriorated. Magomayev began to sharply criticize the policy pursued by the minister in the cultural sphere of the country, and in 2005, in this regard, he renounced the citizenship of Azerbaijan, having received citizenship of Russia, but despite this, he still considered himself an Azerbaijani. In 2007, Magomayev, recalling that Heydar Aliyev granted him and his wife Tamara Sinyavskaya a pension greater than that of the soloists of the Bolshoi Theater, said that Heydar Aliyev took care of the especially talented people of Azerbaijan, and his son Ilham Aliyev, the country's president, continues this tradition .

Muslim Magomayev was a member of the leadership of the All-Russian Azerbaijan Congress.

One of the last songs of Muslim Magomayev was the song "Farewell, Baku" to the verses of Sergei Yesenin, recorded in March 2007.

Muslim Magomayev died on October 25, 2008 at the age of 66 from coronary heart disease., in the arms of his wife Tamara Sinyavskaya. Farewell to the singer took place on October 28, 2008 in Moscow, in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.

On the same day, the coffin with the body of the singer was delivered by special flight to his homeland, Azerbaijan, and on October 29, 2008, in the Azerbaijan State Philharmonic named after. M. Magomayev in Baku were farewell ceremonies with the singer. Magomayev was buried in the Alley of Honor in Baku next to his grandfather. Thousands of people came to say goodbye to Magomayev. The coffin with the body of the deceased was carried out to the sounds of the song "Azerbaijan" written and performed by him. The funeral procession was attended by the country's President Ilham Aliyev, the singer's widow Tamara Sinyavskaya and daughter Marina, who arrived from the United States.

On October 22, 2009, a monument to Muslim Magomayev was unveiled at his grave in the Alley of Honor in Baku. The author of the monument is People's Artist of Azerbaijan, rector of the Azerbaijan State Academy of Arts Omar Eldarov. The monument is made to its full height, and white marble for it was delivered to Baku from the Urals.

On October 25, 2009, the Crocus City Hall concert hall named after Muslim Magomayev was opened on the territory of Crocus City in Krasnogorsk. In October 2010, the first Muslim Magomayev International Vocal Competition was held in Moscow.

On July 6, 2011, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where the singer lived in Baku, and one of the schools in Baku was named after Muslim Magomayev.

On December 18, 2014, a ceremony was held in Baku for the commissioning of a ship named after Muslim Magomayev. The ceremony was attended by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, his wife Mehriban Aliyeva and Muslim Magomayev's wife, Tamara Sinyavskaya.

In August 2017, on the occasion of the singer's 75th birthday, Channel One showed.

Muslim Magomayev (documentary)

Biographical series released in 2019 "Magomaev" telling about the great singer. The central theme of the picture was the love story of Muslim Magomayev and Tamara Sinyavskaya. The action of the tape develops in the late 1960s. Muslim Magomayev, while recording a concert program, meets a charming opera singer, Tamara Sinyavskaya. Between the king of the Soviet stage and the rising star of the Bolshoi Theater, a spark runs at first sight, which becomes the beginning of great love. However, Tamara is married, and Muslim is not free either. But true love has no barriers, and fate brings the lovers together again - already in Paris.

The role of Muslim Magomayev was played by an actor, and Tamara Sinyavskaya -. The widow of Muslim Magomayev - Tamara Sinyavskaya - acted as a consultant when creating the series about.

frame from the series "Magomaev"

The growth of Muslim Magomayev: 186 centimeters.

Personal life of Muslim Magomayev:

The first wife is Ophelia, an Armenian, his classmate. We got married in 1960. In marriage, a daughter, Marina, was born. But family life lasted only a year.

“What can I say? A boy of 18 years old for the first time flared up to a woman ... My first reaction is to get married! Now it’s funny for me to talk about this frivolity. I am grateful to those times - that our short marriage, it lasted only one year, gave us daughter. I have a very good daughter Marina - for which many thanks to Ophelia. And I don’t want to remember what I endured in that family, "Magomaev later said.

Daughter Marina lives in the USA, is married to Alexander Kozlovsky, has a son, Allen.

The singer had many novels.

Magomayev's great love in the 1960s and 1970s was the music editor of the All-Union Radio Lyudmila Kareva (Figotina). Their life together lasted 15 years. In fact, they lived in a civil marriage.

Mila Kareva (Figotina)

"We lived in Baku in two rooms of a communal apartment, and in Moscow mainly in hotels, sometimes we rented an apartment. Muslim was a wonderful person in every respect: a fantastic singer, a talented artist, a good friend, a luxurious lover, which was no more, and a brilliant man ", Kareva recalled.

They did not even think about registering a marriage. Kareva said: “On tour, they refused to accommodate us in one room. Once, at a banquet, Magomayev told the Minister of Internal Affairs Shchelokov about his problem. them sharing a hotel room. Minister of the Interior Shchelokov.

Muslim Magomayev and Lyudmila Kareva (Figotina)

Another love of the singer is the young (at that time) singer Tata Sheykhova (later the People's Artist of Azerbaijan Natavan Sheykhova).

Tata Sheikhova - Muslim Magomayev's mistress

Magomayev was credited with novels with actresses Natalya Kustinskaya and. Also, according to rumors, he wooed, moreover, when she was married to Alexander Bronevitsky. It was said that out of jealousy, Piekha's husband allegedly came to her on tour in Paris and looked for Magomayev under the bed. “In principle, it would be possible to“ marry ”with Edita. But I respected Sasha Armor very much and knew that Piekha was his creation,” Magomayev himself said.

He had an affair with a popular singer in the 1970s Svetlana Rezanova (performer of the hit "I want to invite you to dance, and only you!"). "How not to fall in love with him? How can you resist such a person? Handsome, talented, generous," -. According to her, their romance was not hindered by the fact that she was familiar with the artist's common-law wife, Lyudmila Kareva (Figotina).

In addition, Svetlana Rezanova expressed confidence that the child who was born by Lyudmila Kareva (Figotina) is the son of Muslim Magomayev. “After Mila became pregnant, Muslim broke up with her and refused to recognize her son. I didn’t want to interfere in their relationship, but I constantly heard some stories. I know that the child that Lyudmila gave birth to really looks like Muslim. But then this baby he simply didn’t need him, he lived happily with Tamara Sinyavskaya and didn’t want unnecessary problems, and Mila called him home very often, ”said Rezanova.

Filmography of Muslim Magomayev:

1962 - "Autumn Concert" (concert film)
1963 - "Blue Light-1963" (concert film) (performs "Song of Love")
1963 - "See you again, Muslim!" (musical film)
1963 - "Loves - does not love?" (performs the song "Gulnara")
1964 - "Blue Light-1964" (musical film)
1964 - "When the song does not end" - singer (performs the song "Our song does not end")
1965 - “At the first hour” (performs the songs “Be with me” and “Intoxicated by the sun”)
1966 - "Tales of the Russian Forest" (performs the songs "Stasera pago io", as well as "Song of the Birds" with L. Mondrus)
1967 - “I love you, life! ..” (short) - singer
1968 - “White Piano” (performs the song “Let it shine for everyone, like a magic lamp in the night ...”)
1968 - “Smile to your neighbor” (performs the songs “Larisa”, “Love Triangle”)
1969 - "Moscow in Notes" (performs the songs "Along the Piterskaya", "Ferris Wheel")
1969 - "Abduction" - artist Muslim Magomayev, cameo
1970 - “Margarita is raging” (performs a song)
1970 - "Rhythms of Absheron" (concert film)
1971 - "Concert program" (concert film)
1971 - "Muslim Magomayev Sings" (concert film)
1971 - “In the footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians” (Troubadour, Atamansha, Detective)
1972 - "Ruslan and Lyudmila" (vocal)
1973 - "The Incredible Adventures of Italians in Russia" (vocals)
1976 - “Melody. Songs of Alexandra Pakhmutova" (short) (performs the song "Melody")
1977 - "Composer Muslim Magomayev" (documentary)
1979 - "Interrupted Serenade" - artist
1979 - "The Ballad of Sports" (documentary)
1981 - "Oh sport, you are the world!" (vocals)
1981 - "Singing Land" (documentary)
1982 - "Nizami" - Nizami
1984 - "Pages of the life of Alexandra Pakhmutova" (documentary)
1985 - “Battle for Moscow” (song “The Frontier”, composer Alexander Pakhmutov, lyrics by Nikolai Dobronravov)
1988 - "Needle" (the song "Smile" is used in the film)
1989 - "Song of the Heart" (documentary)
1996 - "Rashid Behbudov, 20 years ago" (documentary)
1999 - “Streets of broken lanterns. New adventures of cops ”(“ Beauty Queen ”, 7th series)
2000 - "Two Comrades" (vocals)
2002 - "Muslim Magomayev"

Music by Muslim Magomayev for films:

1979 - Interrupted Serenade
1984 - "The Legend of Silver Lake"
1986 - "Whirlpool" ("Country walk")
1989 - "Sabotage"
1999 - "How beautiful this world is"
2010 - "Istanbul Flight"

Discography of Muslim Magomayev:

1995 - Thank you
1996 - Arias from operas, musicals (Neapolitan songs)
2001 - Love is my song (Dreamland)
2002 - Memories of A. Babajanyan and R. Rozhdestvensky
2002 - Muslim Magomayev (Selected)
2002 - Arias from operas
2002 - Songs of Italy
2002 - Concert in the Tchaikovsky Hall, 1963
2002 - Great performers of Russia of the XX century (Muslim Magomayev)
2003 - With love for a woman
2003 - Performances, Musicals, Movies
2004 - Rhapsody of Love
2004 - Muslim Magomayev. Improvisations
2005 - Muslim Magomayev. Concerts, concerts, concerts
2006 - Muslim Magomayev. Arias by P. I. Tchaikovsky and S. Rachmaninov

Songs of Muslim Magomayev:

"Azerbaijan" (M. Magomayev - N. Khazri)
"Atomic Age" (A. Ostrovsky - I. Kashezheva)
"Bella Chao" (Italian folk song - Russian text by A. Gorokhov)
"Take care of your friends" (A. Ekimyan - R. Gamzatov)
“Thank you” ((A. Babajanyan - R. Rozhdestvensky))
"Be with me" (A. Babajanyan - A. Gorokhov)
"Buchenwald alarm" (V. Muradeli - A. Sobolev)
“Evening on the roadstead” (V. Solovyov-Sedoy - A. Churkin)
"Evening Sketch" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
“Give me back the music” (A. Babajanyan - A. Voznesensky)
"The Return of the Romance" (O. Feltsman - I. Kokhanovsky)
"Wax doll" (S. Gainsbourg - Russian text by L. Derbenev)
"On the Road" ("E-ge-gay-khali-gali")
"Time" (A. Ostrovsky - L. Oshanin)
"Heroes of Sports" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Voice of the Earth" (A. Ostrovsky - L. Oshanin)
"Blue Taiga" (A. Babajanyan - G. Registan)
"A long time ago" (T. Khrennikov - A. Gladkov)
"Far, far away" (G. Nosov - A. Churkin)
"Twelve months of hope" (S. Aliyev - I. Reznik)
“The girl’s name is a seagull” (A. Dolukhanyan - M. Lisyansky)
"Dolalai" (P. Bul-Bul ogly - R. Gamzatov, translated by Y. Kozlovsky)
"Donbas Waltz" (A. Kholminov - I. Kobzev) (in duet with E. Andreeva)
“Flowers have eyes” (O. Feltsman - R. Gamzatov, per. N. Grebnev)
"Make a wish" (A. Babajanyan - R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Star of artificial ice" (A. Oit - N. Dobronravov)
"Star of the Fisherman" (A. Pakhmutova - S. Grebennikov, N. Dobronravov)
"Winter Love" (A. Babajanyan - R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Horse-animals" (M. Blanter - I. Selvinsky)
"Queen of Beauty" (A. Babajanyan - A. Gorokhov)
"Queen" (G. Podelsky - S. Yesenin)
“Who will respond” (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Moon Serenade" (A. Zatsepin - O. Gadzhikasimov)
"The best city in the world" (A. Babadzhanyan - L. Derbenev)
“Love is not loud words” (V. Shainsky - B. Dubrovin)
"Beloved woman" (I. Krutoy - L. Fadeev)
"Beloved City" (N. Bogoslovsky - E. Dolmatovsky)
"Small Land" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Maritana" (G. Sviridov - E. Askinazi)
"March of the Caspian Oil Workers" (K. Karaev - M. Svetlov)
"Masquerade" (M. Magomaev - I. Shaferan)
"Melody" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
“Peace to your house” (O. Feltsman - I. Kokhanovsky)
“I don’t understand you” (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"My house" (Yu. Yakushev - A. Olgin)
“We were born for the song” (M. Magomaev - R. Rozhdestvensky)
“We cannot live without each other” (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Hope" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"The Beginning of the Beginnings" (A. Ostrovsky - L. Oshanin)
"Our destiny" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Do not rush" (A. Babajanyan - E. Yevtushenko)
“No, it doesn’t happen like that” (A. Ostrovsky - I. Kashezheva)
“There is no silver lining” (Yu. Yakushev - A. Domokhovsky)
"New Day" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Nocturne" (A. Babajanyan - R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Fire" (O. Feltsman - N. Olev)
"Great Sky" (O. Feltsman - R. Rozhdestvensky)
“The bell rattles monotonously” (A. Gurilev - I. Makarov) - duet with Tamara Sinyavskaya
"From village to village" (A. Bykanov - A. Gorokhov)
“Snow is falling” (S. Adamo - L. Derbenev)
"The cutting edge" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Song of the Brilliant Detective" (G. Gladkov - Y. Entin)
“The Song of Lepeletier” (T. Khrennikov - A. Gladkov)
"Paganel's Song" (I. Dunaevsky - V. Lebedev-Kumach)
“Believe my song” (P. Bul-Bul oglu - M. Shcherbachenko)
"Song of Friendship" (T. Khrennikov - M. Matusovsky)
"Song of Forgiveness" (A. Popp - R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Moscow Nights" (V. Solovyov-Sedoy - M. Matusovsky)
“Late happiness” (Yu. Yakushev - A. Domokhovsky)
“Call me” (A. Babajanyan - R. Rozhdestvensky)
“Sing, guitar” (“From dawn to dawn, from dark to dark” from the film “Songs of the Sea”)
“Understand me” (N. Bogoslovsky - I. Kokhanovsky)
“As long as I remember, I live” (A. Babajanyan - R. Rozhdestvensky)
“Because you love me” (P. Bul-Bul oglu - N. Dobronravov)
“A country as beautiful as youth” (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov) - duet with Tamara Sinyavskaya
“Dream song” (M. Magomaev - R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Farewell, Baku!" (M. Magomaev - S. Yesenin)
“Goodbye love” (A. Mazhukov - O. Shakhmalov)
“Is that a man” (O. Feltsman - R. Gamzatov, translated by Y. Kozlovsky)
"Meditation" (P. Bul-Bul oglu - N. Khazri)
"Romance Lapin" (T. Khrennikov - M. Matusovsky)
“With love for a woman” (O. Feltsman - R. Gamzatov, translated by Y. Kozlovsky)
"Wedding" (A. Babajanyan - R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Heart in the Snow" (A. Babadzhanyan - A. Dmokhovsky)
"Serenade of Don Quixote" (D. Kabalevsky - S. Bogomazov)
"Serenade of the Troubadour" ("Ray of the golden sun...") (G. Gladkov - Y. Entin)
"Blue eternity" (M. Magomaev - G. Kozlovsky)
“Tell your eyes” (P. Bul-Bul oglu - R. Rza, trans. M. Pavlova)
“Listen, heart” (A. Ostrovsky - I. Shaferan)
“Intoxicated by the Sun” (A. Babadzhanyan - A. Gorokhov)
"Stadium of my dreams" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Green Twilight" (A. Mazhukov - E. Mitasov)
"Sons of the Revolution" (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
"Solemn Song" (M. Magomaev - R. Rozhdestvensky)
“You won’t come back to me” (A. Pakhmutova - N. Dobronravov)
“Smile” (A. Babajanyan - A. Verdyan)
"Colored dreams" (V. Shainsky - M. Tanich)
"Ferris Wheel" (A. Babadzhanyan - E. Yevtushenko)
“What made you sad” (M. Blanter - I. Selvinsky)
“What is the heart so disturbed” (T. Khrennikov - M. Matusovsky)
“Scaws full of mullet” (N. Bogoslovsky - N. Agatov)
“My native country is wide” (I. Dunaevsky - V. Lebedev-Kumach)
“There was a letter” (V. Shainsky - S. Ostrovoy)
"Elegy" (M. Magomaev - N. Dobronravov)
“I sing about the Motherland” (S. Tulikov - N. Dorizo)
“I am very glad, because I am finally returning home” (A. Ostrovsky)

The roles of Muslim Magomayev in the opera houses of the USSR:

"The Marriage of Figaro" by W. Mozart
The Magic Flute by W. Mozart
"Rigoletto" G. Verdi
The Barber of Seville by G. Rossini
"Otello" G. Verdi
"Tosca" G. Puccini
"Pagliacci" R. Leoncavallo
Faust by Ch. Gounod
"Eugene Onegin" by P. I. Tchaikovsky
"Prince Igor" by A. P. Borodin
"Aleko" by S. V. Rachmaninov
"Koroglu" by U. Gadzhibekov
"Shah Ismail" A. M. M. Magomayev
"Vatan" by K. Karaev and D. Gadzhiev

Songs to the music of Muslim Magomayev:

"The Ballad of a Little Man" (R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Eternal Flame" (A. Dmokhovsky)
"Sadness" (V. Avdeev)
"Far-Close" (A. Gorokhov)
"The road of separation" (A. Dmokhovsky)
“If there is love in the world” (R. Rozhdestvensky)
“If there is love in the world” (R. Rozhdestvensky) with V. Tolkunova
“My life is my Fatherland” (R. Rozhdestvensky)
“Once upon a time” (E. Pashnev)
"The earth is the birthplace of love" (N. Dobronravov)
"The Bells of Dawn" (R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Lullaby of shooting stars" (A. Dmokhovsky)
"Masquerade" (I. Shaferan)
“We were born for the song” (R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Song of a Dzhigit" (A. Dmokhovsky)
"The Last Chord" (G. Kozlovsky)
"Dream Song" (R. Rozhdestvensky)
“Dawns are coming” (R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Snow Princess" (G. Kozlovsky)
"Farewell, Baku" (S. Yesenin)
"Rhapsody of Love" (A. Gorokhov)
"Jealous Caucasus" (A. Gorokhov)
"Blue eternity" (G. Kozlovsky)
Nightingale Hour (A. Gorokhov)
"Old motive" (A. Dmokhovsky)
"Solemn Song" (R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Anxiety of the fisherwoman" (A. Gorokhov)
“At that window” (R. Gamzatov)
"Hiroshima" (R. Rozhdestvensky)
"Scheherazade" (A. Gorokhov)
"Elegy" (N. Dobronravov)