TLENDIYEV Nurgisa Atabayevich

Biography

01.04.1925, Alma-Ata region, Ili district, Shilikemer village (since 2005 Nurgisa Tlendiyev village) – 15.10.1998, Almaty.

Composer, conductor, dombrist virtuoso, teacher.

Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Honored Art Figure of the KazSSR (1959), People's Artist of the KazSSR (1975), Laureate of the State Prize of the KazSSR (1978); People's Artist of the USSR (1984). He was awarded the highest degree of distinction in Kazakhstan – the title "Khalyk Kaharmany" with the award of the special distinction "Golden Star" and the Order “Otan” – “Fatherland” (1998).

In 1933 he was enrolled at the Music and Drama College (now P.I. Tchaikovsky Almaty Music College), where an orchestra of folk instruments was organized (now the Kurmangazy Kazakh State Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments). At the age of twelve, Nurgisa was appointed as concertmaster of the orchestra, and at fourteen, he was appointed as assistant to the chief conductor Naushi Bokeikhanov.

In 1943, Tlendiyev went to the front as a volunteer. He passed the way from the Battle of Kursk to the storming of Berlin in May 1945.

1947-1950 – after demobilization, he studied at the Faculty of Folk Instruments of the Kurmangazy Kazakh State Conservatory.

1950-1952 – student of the Conducting department of the P.I. Tchaikovsky MSC, the class of professor N.P. Anosov, and had internship at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR.

1952-1961 – chief conductor of the Abay Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.

During this period, the ballet-poem "Orteke" was staged at the theater to his music (1957). In the period of preparation for the Decade of Kazakh Art and Literature in Moscow, he took part in editing the score for the ballet "Dzungarian Gate" (in the new edition "On the Way of Friendship"). The original musical material of L. Stepanov was finalized with the participation of N. Tlendiyev and the conductor of the ballet E. Manayev: the entire score as a whole was revised; new musical scenes were created (1958). Composed the cantata "My Kazakhstan" (1959). Together with the Uighur composer K. Kuzhamyarov, he created the opera “The Golden Mountains” (1961).

1961-1964 – chief conductor and artistic director of the Kurmangazy Kazakh State Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments;

1965-1967 – Director of theAbay Kazakh State Academic Opera and Ballet TheatreT.

1968-1981 – editor-in-chief of the musical editorial office of the Kazakhfilm studio.

1981-1998 – organized the Kazakh State folklore-ethnographic orchestra of folk musical instruments "Otrar Sazy". He became the chief conductor and art director of the orchestra. After the death of the composer, the orchestra "Otrar Sazy" was named in honor of Nurgisa Tlendiyev.

Author of more than 500 pieces of music in various genres: songs, kui, romances, overtures, poems, cantatas, opera, ballet, music for films and drama performances, etc.

In different periods of his creative activity, he taught at the Kurmangazy Kazakh State Conservatory.

Awards: Medals "For Courage" (1945), "For the Battle of Berlin" (1945), "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (1945); Labor Red Banner Order (1959), Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (1985); Medals for the Jubilees of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and Jubilees of the Armed Forces of the USSR, Medal "Astana" (1998).

Bibliography

• Қазақ ССР. Қысқаша энциклопедия. 4 том. – Алматы: Қазақ совет энциклопедиясы – 1989. С. 594–595.
• Сарынова Л. П. Тлендиев Нургиса. Балетное искусство Казахстана. – Научное издание. – Алма-Ата: «Наука» Казахской ССР, 1976–176 стр. – С. 95, 96, 97, 168.
• Portrait photography from an open Internet resource.