Josh Gracin - I Want To Live (Chorus)

KASIMOV Kubad Abdullah oglu [p. 27 VI (9 VII) 1896, p. Kargabazar, now Fizuli district] - Soviet musicologist and theater expert. Failed cultural worker Azerb. SSR (1968). Candidate Histor. sciences (1949). In 1928 he graduated from the historian. branch of the eastern branch of Azerbaijan. University. In 1921-38, a journalist. In 1939-44, Art. scientific an employee of the Research Office of Music, in 1945-50 scientific secretary of the Institute of Art of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. SSR, in 1955-70 the head. music department, since 1971 art. scientific employee of the Institute of Architecture and Art of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan. SSR. Author and editor of works, dedicated. azerb. musesand theater, culture (over 40). Compiled by commentary lit. works of U. Gadzhibekov (t. 1-4) and Bulbul (1968), sb. “Uzeyir Hajibeyov on the musical art of Azerbaijan” (1966) and others. The author of the essay on the music of Azerbaijan (jointly with E. Abasova) in “History of the Music of the Peoples of the USSR”, vol. 1 (1970).