The Most Famous
COMPOSERS from Kyrgyzstan
This page contains a list of the greatest Kirghiz Composers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,216 Composers, 1 of which were born in Kyrgyzstan. This makes Kyrgyzstan the birth place of the 63rd most number of Composers behind Iran and Uzbekistan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Kirghiz Composers of all time. This list of famous Kirghiz Composers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Abdylas Maldybaev (1906 - 1978)
With an HPI of 48.04, Abdylas Maldybaev is the most famous Kirghiz Composer. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Abdylas Maldybaevich Maldybaev (Kyrgyz: Абдылас Малдыбаевич Малдыбаев; July 7, 1906 – June 1, 1978) was a Soviet and Kyrgyz composer, actor, and operatic tenor singer. Maldybaev was one of the composers of the state anthem of the Kirghiz SSR and is still renowned for his operatic composition. He helped popularize Kyrgyz music by skillfully using Western European techniques. The Kyrgyz one som banknote pictures him. Maldybayev provided folk melodies and composed music which was organized and prepared by Russian composers Vladimir Vlasov and Vladimir Fere into six Soviet state operas and other works. Their first full opera was Ai-churek. The collective is usually hyphenated as Vlasov-Fere-Maldybayev, which also composed the Kirghiz national anthem.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as composers born between 1906 and 1906. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased composers include Abdylas Maldybaev. As of April 2022, 1 new composers have been added to Pantheon including Abdylas Maldybaev.
