Guided tours with interpreters in Almaty.

"We usually argue, not without venom, about what sounds Kazakh.... We jealously discussed every intonation, this or that harmonic technique. What to do with the third? Is it possible to use D7 in its pure form or in an altered form? ... There were many questions and all were nervous. Not having had time to really master the technical level of the first harmony, Mukan looked far ahead. So from the first song "Sok drum" to the last "Tos meni, tos" Mukan went the way of returning from Moscow to Kazakhstan, clarifying the stylistic, modal-harmonic principles of Kazakh music."

Evgeny Brusilovsky. 1941 - 1946.

Tourist information on Almaty.

Monument to Mukan Tulebayev is located at an altitude of 861 meters above sea level, is located in park on Tulebayev Street on corner with Abay Street just above Zhetysu (Semirechye) fountain group in Medeu district of Almaty.
The monument to the composer and teacher, public figure, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the USSR State Prize Mukan Tulebayev (1913 - 1960) was erected on January 29, 2002. The authors are Almaty sculptor E. Rakhmadiev and architect K. Zharylgapov.
The cost of the work was 17,000,000 tenge, which was allocated by the city akimat. The sculpture was cast in bronze at the Porshen plant. Mukan Tulebaevich Tulebayev was born on February 28, 1913 in the village of Karachagan, former Taldykorgan, and now Zhetysu region.
M. Tulebayev is a co-author of the opera "Amangeldy" and the author of the opera "Birzhan and Sara", orchestral and chamber works, film music, songs, one of the authors of the music for the National Anthem of Kazakhstan. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and a medal.
M. Tulebayev studied at the Almaty Pedagogical College (1933), at the Kazakh Opera Studio at the Moscow Conservatory (1938-1941), in 1941-1946 he took composition lessons from E.G. Brusilovsky, in 1951 he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in composition from V.G. Fere (he had previously studied with N.Ya. Myaskovsky).
At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Tulebayev was in the ranks of the people's militia of Moscow. In the fall of 1941, due to health reasons, he returned to Almaty. In 1942-1944, Tulebayev was the conductor of the Orchestra of Kazakh Folk Instruments.
Since 1953, he taught at the Almaty Conservatory. In 1953-1955 and 1959-1960 Tulebayev was the chairman of the Union of Composers of Kazakhstan. M. Tulebayev is the author of the music for the National Anthem of the Kazakh SSR (jointly with E.G. Brusilovsky and L.A. Khamidi, 1945).
His opera "Birzhan and Sara" (1946, 2nd edition - 1957) was a valuable contribution to Kazakh opera music. Tulebayev also created orchestral and chamber works, over 50 songs and romances, arrangements of folk songs, music for performances of the Kazakh Drama Theater, for the films "Golden Horn" (1946), "Dzhambul" (1952, jointly with N.N. Kryukov), etc.
A street in Almaty is named after M. Tulebayev; a memorial plaque was installed on the house where he lived.
Geographical coordinates of monument to Mukan Tulebaev: N43°14'34 E76°57'00

Authority:
Kazakh Soviet Encyclopedia, 1983 3. Set of monuments of history and culture of the city of Almaty Ch. Editor B. G. Ayagan, 2006.

Photos by:
Alexander Petrov.