1958Winner
Best Performance
The Fires of Baku
Gara Garayev
Actor · Writer
Baku, Bakinskaya guberniya, People's Republic of Azerbaijan
February 5, 1918
Biography
Gara Abulfaz oghlu Garayev (Azerbaijani: Qara Əbülfəz oğlu Qarayev, Russian: Кара́ Абульфа́зович Кара́ев (Kara Abulfazovich Karayev), February 5, 1918 – May 13, 1982), also spelled as Qara Qarayev or Kara Karayev, was a prominent Soviet Azerbaijani composer. Garayev wrote nearly 110 musical pieces, including ballets, operas, symphonic and chamber pieces, solos for piano, cantatas, songs, and marches, and rose to prominence not only in the Azerbaijan SSR, but also in the rest of the Soviet Union and worldwide.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1957Nominee
Best Performance
Don Quixote
1943Winner
Best Performance
A Family
Career Highlights
1971Highlight
Best Performance
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
1958Highlight
Best Performance
On Distant Shores
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On Distant Shores
Seven Beauties