Biography of Batuev

Six -year -old Zhigit began to sing, at 9 years he participated in amateur performances. After graduating from elementary school, Zhigit enters the Khorinsky school of peasant youth. At school, I learned to play Hur and Limbe, Domra and Balalaika. In the city of Zhigit Batuev becomes a student of the musical department of the Ulan-Ude Theater and Musical School. He learns to play on the pipe, plays in a wind orchestra on the Saxorny and the drum, in the orchestra of folk instruments - on the Domra, sings in the choir of the radio committee, performs with solo concerts as a performer of folk songs.

The young musician writes several songs, from which “fried” and “song about Voroshilov” were seen, performed by the chorus of the Buryat-Mongol radio. From songs it goes to larger forms, writes for the orchestra. Having become in the city of Zhigit Batuev, among the participants of the I decades of the Buryat-Mongol art of literature in the Moscow, G. During the war, J. Batuev was a participant in concert brigades, led the ensemble of the song and dance, and led the teaching work.

Zhigit Abiduevich Batuev is going to Sverdlovsk. Here, in the conservatory, it takes possession of composer equipment. In the season. Hard work in the field of composition, extensive practical activity led to the success of a young Buryat musician. His radio poem for violin and piano, symphonic suits, plays for folk instruments have become widely known in the republic. Batuev wrote his famous "collective farm suite", which received all -Union recognition.

She was in the city of Batuev in collaboration with composer B. The whole previous creative work of Batuev served as a serious preparation for the transition to a new, large musical genre. A year later, the second ballet “Golden Candle” was written, the co -author - B. Then followed the ballet “Flowers of life”, which received a wide response in the musical circle of the country.

Batuev wrote for the National Musical and Drama Theater Ballet based on Yakut folklore. The plot for the ballet "Churumchuk" was chosen a popular fairy tale. The ballet "Churumchuk" was a major event in the musical life of two neighboring republics - Yakutia and Buryatia. Between the peoples of these two republics there is much in common in language, culture, customs.

Before starting work on the ballet, the composer traveled a lot in Kalmykia, studied the musical work of the people, his epic "Dzhangar", - wrote musicologist X. Karzhauubaev Pravda, June 28. J. Batuev’s ballet “Dzhangar” received very positive responses in the musical life of Kalmykia and the country. The most significant work of the composer was the embodiment of the plan to recreate in music and dance the majestic folk epos of the Buryat-Mongol people “Geser”.

Zhigit Batuev wrote very interesting music, found a lot of bright, national -colored musical images. Badano, appeared to the stage performance of the Buryat Opera and Ballet Theater. Batuev was the author of the ballets “Eternal Flame”, “Friendship”, “White Cranes Valley”, ballet scenes “Hunters and Bird”. The composer Batuev is widely known as the author of large symphonic poems, plays for the orchestra of folk instruments, marches for the wind orchestra, mass songs.

Zhigit Abiduevich Batuev was a major organizer and public figure. He led the activities of the musical educational institutions of the Muzchiliy and children's music schools, the music groups of the Philharmonic and the song and dance ensemble. He was a member of the board of the Union of Composers of the Republic, Chairman of the Church Society, a member of the Audit Commission of the Union of Composers of the Russian Federation.

For merits in the field of musical creativity, the composer was marked by government awards, honorary titles of Russia, Buryatia, Yakutia and Kalmykia. Instrumentation: Opera D. Ayusheeva “Sagan Hatan” G. Symphony music: collective farm suite, symphonic poem “Light over the taiga”, suite “For peace”, suite on Mongolian themes, songs of Yakutia Suyte in 4 parts, symphonic sketches, children's suite, rapexia for a symphonic orchestra and other Mastery Music: a poem-reordo Violins and piano, plays for the piano "Moonlit Night", "Bird Dance" and others.

The oratorio "Salvation of the Holy Sea". Music to the performances: “Wonderful peas” play by P. Malyarevsky, “Budamsh” comedy C. Shagzhin, “Soelma, Bato-Shulun” Play Sh. Göninova, “The failed wedding” Musical comedy, Libretto by A. Arsalanova and D. Music for the brass band: marches on Buryat-Mongolian topics, “Shine of the North”, “Yakutia” by marches, marches, marching march, Buryat-Mongol physical march, two marches on the Kalmyk themes.