Veli Mukhatov

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 12 August 2007


Born

5 May (old style: April 22) 1916 in Bagir near Asgabat. Died in January 2005.

Works

"Victory", cantata (1944)

"White Cotton", ballet (1945)

Composed together with Alexander Znosko-Borovsky.
Hymn of the Turkmen SSR (1946)

"Poet and Judge", opera (1946-1947)

Composed together with Adrian Shaposhnikov.
Turkmen Suite for orchestra (1949)
LP Melodiya D 01135-3527: Radio Orchestra, Samosud (cond)
"My Motherland", symphonic poem (1950)
LP Melodiya D 01135-3527: USSR State Orchestra, Ivanov (cond)
"Sokhre and Takhir", opera (1953)
Composed together with Shaposhnikov.
"The Communist Party", cantata (1955)

"Greeting to Moscow", cantata (1955)

"Ballad to Lenin" for soloist and orchestra (1956)

"Glory to the Party", vocal-symphonic poem (1961)

"The Flowing of Water to End Bloodshed“, opera in four acts (1967)

Libretto by Ashirov and Kurbansakhatov.
"Legend on a Communist", vocal-symphonic poem (1970)

"Banner of friedship", vocal-symphonic poem (1971)

Symphony No. 1 in E minor "To the Memory of Makhtumkuli" (1974)

In one movement.
"Ode to the Party", vocal-symphonic poem (1976)

Symphony No. 2 "Heroic" (1980)

"My Asgabat", oratorio (1980)

Symphony No. 3 (1985)

Suite from the opera "The Flowing of Water to End Bloodshed“ (1986)

Piano Concerto (1989)

Violin Concerto (1990)

"Children of Atatürk", cantata (1993)

"Geop Tepe", symphony (1995)

Turkmen National Anthem (1997)

Violin Concerto (2003)

And futhermore:
- Film music (including „Soviet Turkmenistan“)
- Works for folk orchestra
- "Osen" for string quartet


Thanks to Holger Sambale from Germany for this information

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