P rominent t ajik f igures of the

Abdulloev, Ibodullo

Tajik music conductor Ibodullo Ermurodovich Abdulloev was born

into a farmer's family in the village of Qaraqchiqum in the Konibodom

district of northern Tajikistan, on December 9, 1918. He joined the

CPSU in 1944.

Abdulloev began his career at the Leninabad Music School in 1930

as a teacher of violin. From 1934 to 1939, he studied at the Moscow

State Conservatory Music School. He participated in the war effort from

1939 to 1946. For a while, thereafter, he was the violin player for the

symphony orchestra attached to the Aini Theater for the Academy of

Opera and Ballet. In 1950, after he graduated from the Moscow State

Conservatory, he returned to Dushanbe and continued his work there. In

1970, he became the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Aini

Theater for the Academy of Opera and Ballet. The following are

examples of works performed under his direction: music for

Tchaikovsky's Kuli Quvon (Swan Lake, 1950), music for Sh.

Sayfuddinov's opera Pulod va Gulru (Pulad and Gulru, 1957), music

for S. A. Balasanian's Shurishi  Vose' (The Vose' Uprising, 1958), and

music for a number of other works.

Beginning in 1950, Abdulloev began teaching music, first at the

music schools and, after 1968, as part of the staff of the Dushanbe

Pedagogical Institute for the Arts. He is recognized as one of the main

promoters of symphonic music in the region. Abdulloev he was rec-

ognized as a Distinguished Artist of Tajikistan in 1968, and as a

People's Artist of the Republic in 1974.