Nury Khalmamedov was a Turkmen composer. He was born on June 20, 1938, in the settlement of Dayna, in the Krasnovodsk Region of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR. He was posthumously awarded the title of People's Artist of Turkmenistan in 1991.
He was born into a large family. His father was Khanmamed Bailyev and his mother was Khangul; he also had brothers, Baimukhamed, Begmamed, and Ashirberdy, and a sister, Artyk. At an early age he lost his mother and was sent to the Bayramaly orphanage, where he received his musical education. His first teacher was Olga Krivchenko.
After the orphanage, Khalmamedov entered a music college. In 1958, after graduating from the college, he was sent, as one of the most gifted students, to the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. There he wrote about thirty songs, romances, and choral works. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1963. His diploma work was the symphonic pictures Turkmenia, performed at the final examination in May 1963 by the Grand Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Television.
At the age of nineteen he wrote his first romance, choosing for it one of the most tragic poems by the Turkmen poet Makhtumkuli, The Exile. At twenty-two he wrote the well-known piece Sounds of the Dutar, and at twenty-three the popular symphonic pictures Turkmenia. He also created vocal cycles to poems by Sergei Yesenin, Persian Motifs, and by Heinrich Heine, Human Hearts.
Poetry formed the basis of much of his vocal music. He drew on texts by Mollanepes, Kemine, and other Turkmen poets of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, among whom the name of Gurbannazar Ezizov appeared especially often. Khalmamedov was a friend of Ezizov, whom the article describes as a leading contemporary poet of that period.
In 1979 he was given the honorary title Merited Art Worker of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic. He died on August 4, 1983, in Ashgabat and was buried at the Vatutin Cemetery there. In 1983 he was awarded the Makhtumkuli State Prize of Turkmenistan, in 1984 the USSR State Prize for the film Masculine Upbringing, and on December 1, 1991, by decree of President Saparmurat Niyazov, he was posthumously awarded the honorary title People's Artist of Turkmenistan.
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