# Tolib Shakhidi

Tolib-khon Shakhidi (Толиб-хон Шахиди) or Tolib Shahidi (Tajik: Толиб Шаҳидӣ/Persian: طالب شهیدی, born 13 March 1946) is a Tajik and Soviet composer who was born in the city of Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. He is a son of the founder of Professional Tajik Academic Music – Ziyodullo Shakhidi.

## Early life

Tolib-khon Shakhidi began his musical career at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Musical College in Dushanbe in 1965 from the Composition Class of Uri Ter-Osipov.

## Career

From 1972 to this day, Tolib Shakhidi has participated in a number of music festivals.
"Taste, intellect, professionalism are the three main values of contemporary music" ("Official web-site".). This aphorism, expressed by the composer fully complies with his own creative work. Tolib Shahidi represents a very rare type of Universal master-composer, who possesses the whole arsenal of contemporary musical language, yet uses the richest resources of traditional Eastern music of his region. This twin pillar is not an obstacle, but the most important source of his artistic power and originality.
He won the 2008 Georges Delerue Award for his score of the film Two-Legged Horse.

## Personal life

Tolibkhon Shakhidi is married to Gulsifat Shakhidi.

## List of major works

* 1975 – Festival, symphonic poem
* 1978 – Death of usurer, suite of ballet
* 1978 – Tajiks, symphony No. 2
* 1980 – Rubai of Khaiam, film ballet
* 1981 – Charkh, symphony for chamber orchestra
* 1981 – Sonata No. 1 for piano
* 1981 – Recitative of Rumi, suite for flute and piano
* 1984 – Sado, symphonic poem
* 1988 – Caliph-stork, operas for children
* 1989 – Karlic-nose, operas for children
* 1989 – Beauty yosif, ballet
* 1991 – Sonata No. 2 for piano
* 1991 – Sonata No. 2 for piano and chamber orchestra
* 1992 – Siavush, ballet
* 1993 – Beauty and Monster, opera
* 1993 – Concerto for violin and chamber orchestra
* 1994 – Concert No. 3 for piano and orchestra
* 1997 – Concert No. 1 for string orchestra
* 1998 – Firdavsiada, concerto No. 2 for string orchestra
* 1998 – Sufi-dancer, music for 15 instruments
* 1998 – Istanbul-capricci, for saxophone and chamber orchestra.
* 1999 – Dobro vam, vocal cycle for tenor and symphonic orchestra. Poems of Hofiz, Goethe, Pushkin
* 1999 – Amir Ismoil, opera
* 2000 – Silk road dreams dancing, septet
* 2000 – Pictures under moon, for R. Finn poem, soprano and chamber orchestra
* 2001 – Algorismus marimba+, sextet
* 2001 – Contrasts in 55
* 2001 – Contrasts, music for violin and piano
* 2002 – King Lear, music for tragedy of Shakespeare
* 2002 – Persian Suite, music for string orchestra
* 2002 – Sufi and Buddha, pictures etude for piano
* 2004 – Concerto Grosso No. 3, for santur, violino solo and chamber orchestra
* 2005 – Contrast of times, vocal cycle for soprano and symphonic orchestra, words of Paul Valéry and Rekan
* 2007 – Birds talking, suite for three flute
* 2008 – Adagio, for violoncello solo in remembrance of Aram Khachaturian
* 2008 – Allegro in 5, for chamber ensemble
* 2008 – Four retro miniature for chorus A-Capella, in remembrance of Ziyodullo Shakhidi
* 2008 – Playing Backgammon, for piano
* 2009 – Verdi-Shakhidi, paraphrase for piano from opera Traviata
* 2010 – Concerto for clarinet and orchestra
* 2011 – Quartet for 4 cellos, from Indian Raga
* 2012 – Darius, pictures for Symphonic Orchestra
* 2012 – Adagio – Existence, for string orchestra
* 2013 – Rhapsody Dialogue: Theme of Aram Khachaturian, for piano and orchestra

## Discography

* Symphonic music (1997)
* Great Hall of Moscow State Conservatoire, Author Concert (1999)
* Symphonic Music (2004)
* Symphonic music and ballet extracts (2002)
* Movie Music & Existence – various music written for movies and theatre between 1969–2008 (2004)
* Concert featuring works of Tolibkhon Shakhdi, Live (2006)
* Gergiev-Shakhidi – Valery Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra & Mariinsky Orchestra (2012)
* Anthology of piano music by Russian and Soviet composers, vol.7 – Melodija, (2014)