Artists can be comared to shis: some remain anchored in harbors or sail only in calm seas near the land. Others are brave enough to sail in abundance, take ambitious routes, navigate in stormy waters and exlore new uncharted areas without fear... GARA GARAYEV AZERBAIJAN-AMERICAN MUSIC FOUNDATION This ublication was made ossible through the invaluable assistance received from comoser s daughter and son: Zuleycha and Faraj Garayev; generous suort of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan as well as the Azerbaijan-American Music Foundation. Originator: Jamila Javadova-Sitzberg, Doctor of Musical Arts
GARA GARAYEV Biograhy GARA GARAYEV (1918-1982), one of the most eminent and leading comosers of Azerbaijan, was born on February 5, 1918, in Baku into the family of a medical doctor, ediatrician, Abulfaz Garayev (1885-1952) and Sona Garayeva (1898-1971), a graduate of the Baku branch of the Imerial Russian Music Society School. Between 1933-1938, Gara Garayev studied comosition and folk music at the Azerbaijan State Conservatory. In 1938, he continued his studies in the Moscow Conservatory, named after P. I. Tchaikovsky, where he initially studied comosition with A. Alexandrov and then later in 1943 with legendary Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975). This fortunate union between D. Shostakovich and G. Garayev turned into a lifelong friendshi, collaboration, and mentorshi. As the author of 110 oeuvres, Garayev embraced a vast number of genres. He wrote ballets, including Seven Beauties (1952) and Path of Thunder (1957); an oera Motherland (co-authored with J. Hajiyev (1945); three symhonies (1943, 1946, 1964); a symhonic oem, Leyli and Majnun (1947); Albanian Rhasody (1952); Don Quixote Symhonic Engravings (1960); 24 Preludes for Piano (1951-1963); a Violin Concerto (1967); incidental film music, Fires of Baku (1951), The Conqueror of the Sea (1965), and many other works. Ultimately, Garayev emerged as a groundbreaking twentieth century modern comoser, whose works made an aearance in many concert halls of the world, including countries of the former Soviet Union, Euroe and the United States. During the cold war in June of 1961, Gara Garayev and Tikhon Khrennikov were the only two Soviet comosers attending the first International Music Festival at the University of California in Los Angeles. Among other invitees were Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. Garayev s Suite from the Path of Thunder ballet was erformed under the baton of twelve-time Academy Award nominee and founder of the LA festival Franz Waxman. Uon his return from Moscow to Baku, Garayev continued to write music zealously and conduct. He also became a dedicated teacher, ushing the boundaries of the Azerbaijani comositional school towards new and modern horizons. Between 1949-1953, Garayev served as the Rector of the Azerbaijan Conservatory and from 1965-1982, as Chairman of the Union of Azerbaijan Comosers, as well as Secretary of the Union of USSR Comosers. From folk music to twelve-tone technique, to jazz, the music of Garayev resents it all. The distinct architecture of Garayev works, the beauty of his melodies, and the innovative harmonic and orchestral language of his music are striking. In addition, the unforgettable allet and richness of his music touches a wide sectrum of human emotions, as his works exress love and struggle, joy and sadness, humor and drama, dreaming and reality. Garayev moved with time, he felt the ulse, insired his listeners, and rose to the to.
FROM THE EDITOR Selected iano works of the famous Azerbaijani comoser Gara Garayev are designed for young musicians of various age grous and training and comrise ieces of assorted difficulty from early intermediate to advanced level. The ublication is divided into several arts with subtitles and can aeal to musical tastes of very young as well as more mature and exerienced ianists. These comositions are filled with national elements and can hel to immerse in the atmoshere of the Azerbaijani musical culture. The majority of selected works in the ublication are character ieces which evoke articular moods or moments. Each iece is very distinct and offers a musical illustration of the idea it insires. These ieces easily suit young musicians frame of mind, cature children s sirits, and hel to nurture associative thinking. Pieces such as The Jolly Game or Merry Adventure can motivate a sense of discovery, adventure, and enjoyment and A Story or A Forgotten Waltz will seak to a child s inner world. The Tsarskoye Selo Statue and Sonatina are large-scale mature works for advanced students, with extensive iano erformance exerience. The amount of music rovided in the ublication is sufficient to consolidate the knowledge and ianistic skills already acquired. In order to ensure a quality erformance, during the study rocess, the editor recommends talking to a student about the comoser, telling him/her about Azerbaijan and discussing the musical language of Garayev s country of birth. It would also be imortant to examine elements evoking musical national identities in the comoser s music. In addition, the instructor can direct a student to delve into the thoughts, characters, and feelings offered by each iece so that the child is more comfortable in delivering an intelligible, authentic and true erformance. The editor added fingering, metronome markings and edaling. Per the editor s suggestion and based on the student s skills and rearation, metronome markings can be shifted to slightly slower or faster temi in order to hel a student to feel and erform more comfortably. -ZULEYCHA GARAYEVA
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHILDREN S ALBUM 1. A Little Waltz...4 2. The Sinning To...6 3. Reverie... 7 4. The Jolly Game....9 5. A Story...11 6. Merry Adventure...12 INTERMEDIATE LEVEL PIECES 1. The Rain...15 2. A Little Story...17 3. On the Mountains...18 4. An Intrusive Thought... 20 5. A Forgotten Waltz...22 6. The Wind...24 THREE PIECES 1. The Elehant and the Pug...29 2. A Birthday March... 30 3. Polka...31 TWO LARGE-SCALE WORKS 1. Tsarskoe Selo Statue...35 2. Sonatina...42 Coyright 2018 The Azerbaijan-American Music Foundation All Rights Reserved
4 CHILDREN S ALBUM 1. A Little Waltz Piano Temo di Valse h. = 58 GARA GARAYEV A temo mf mf rit.
5 cresc. rit. f A temo f dim.
6 2. The Sinning To Allegro vivace q = 107-120 leggiero m f m mf m dim. al fine
7 3. Reverie Andantino q = 108 m
8 m mf f f dim.
9 rit. 4. The Jolly Game f Allegro vivace q = 125-135 mf
10 3 3 3 mf dim. 3 3 3 cresc. f dim. cresc.
f 11 5. A Story Andante q = 60 3
12 3 6. Merry Adventure f Allegro scherzando h = 100-116
13 non legato f sub. marcato f
14 sub. cresc. f m sub.
INTERMEDIATE LEVEL PIECES 15 1. The Rain Allegretto h = 120 m cresc. m
16 mf dim. (non cresc.) sf dim.
2. A Little Story 17 Andantino h = 73 m.s. m iù esress. mf m
18 mf m 3. On the Mountains Andante q = 76 semre sotto voce 3 3 3 3 3
m mf sub. sotto voce 19
20 4. An Intrusive Thought Moderato leggiero q = 176 semre
m sub. dim. dim. molto 21
22 5. A Forgotten Waltz Temo di Valse q = 93-108 dolce semre Più rubato m
mf m 23 sub.
24 6. The North Wind Allegro molto q = 134-146 semre legato cresc. 9 9 9 9
25 1. f dim. 2. f
26 dim. cresc. 9 9
27 9 9 sub. 9 9 cresc. 9 9
28 f dim. dim. mf
THREE PIECES FOR CHILDREN 29 1. The Elehant and The Pug Moderato q = 86 esante oco a oco cresc. f 3 3 3 3 f scherzando sf 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 esante 3 3 3 3
30 3 3 f dim. 2. A Birthday March Temo di marcia q = 84 f Fine
31 D.C. al Fine 3. Polka Allegretto q = 132 m m cresc. f
32 senza P A temo leggiero cresc. P simile cresc. staccato senza P dim. rit. dim.
33 dim. simile cresc. (non legato) allarg. A temo ff simile
34 dim cresc. mf P simile f
35 TWO LARGE SCALE WORKS TSARSKOYE SELO STATUE Allegro q = 120 sf sff ff Uberamente dim. una corda Più lento q = 60 una corda m tre corde una corda tre corde m tre corde
36 Moderato q = 114 mf dolce m mf Più mosso q = 120 f mf f m
Moderato q = 114 molto esress. mf 37 m molto cresc. f ff mf una corda m m
38 Lento (q = h) 3 3
A temo. Moderato (q = q) m G dolce 39 dim. oco a oco una corda Cadenza ad lib. tre corde una corda accel. g l i s s. rit.
40 G A temo. Moderato tre corde G 3 3 3 3 g l i s s. m mf m
mf 41 Più Lento q = 60 dim. molto
42 SONATINA I Allegro h = 120 semre non legato f sub.
43 f sub. oco a oco dim.
44 f dim. m molto cresc. ff marcato secco marcato cresc. oco a oco
45 f marcato
46 f sub. sf sub. cresc.
ff marcato Ossia: 47 Ossia: molto cresc.
48 sff o c o a o c o d i m i n u e n d o a l F i n e sf sf sf sf sf sf sf sf sf sf
II 49 Moderato assai q = 88-96 mf simile dim. 3 3 3 3 3
50 mf m dim. 3 3 3 cresc. m
mf cresc. f 51 ff f dim. molto
52 III Vivo q = 140 non legato mf f sub.
mf cresc. mf f mf dim. oco a oco 53
54 m sub. dim. m m
non legato mf sub. f 55 dim.
56 cresc. oco a oco mf
ff 5 f Ossia 57 f non legato mf sub.
58 f sub. f f f f
cresc. 59 non legato f dim. oco a oco m
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS For their dedicated efforts in the 2018 First American Publication of the Selected Piano Works for Children by Gara Garayev, The Azerbaijan-American Music Foundation extends its sincere thanks to comoser s daughter and son Zuleycha and Faraj Garayeva for their kind ermission to make the First American Publication ossible; to Alla Bayramova, (Director of the State Museum of Musical Culture of Azerbaijan) for roviding necessary hoto materials; to Khanlar Novruzov for music tyesetting; to Roussy Ray for the cover artwork; to Mary Gibson for the comlete design of the ublication.
GARA GARAYEV (Kara Karayev) AZERBAIJAN-AMERICAN MUSIC FOUNDATION