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Place of Birth: Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia
About Said Dimayev
- Said-Emin Umarovich Dimayev (Chechen: ????-???? ???????? ??????) (August 24, 1939 – March 28, 2005) was a Soviet composer.
- His father Umar Dimayev was a legendary accordionist and folk musician, and his brothers Ali and Valid are professional Chechen musicians. Said was born in 1939 in the Chechen Autonomous Oblast of the Soviet Union.
- When Said was four years, he was deported along with his entire family to Kazakhstan as a result of the forced deportations of the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia on February 23, 1944.
- After returning to Chechnya he studied at the Grozny Music College, graduating in 1963.[1] Said then joined the music department of Gnessin State Musical College, a prominent conservatory in Moscow, and would move into the composition department of the institution.
- After graduation, he returned to Grozny to serve as a music professor.[2] From 1970 Said worked as an artistic director of the Chechen-Ingush State Philharmonic Society, and in this position he helped create national folklore and entertainment ensembles.
- He also served as the chief conductor of the folklore instruments orchestra on Chechen-Ingush television. Said composed in various genres, including chamber music, film music, overtures, and variations on folk melodies, and served as a member of the Union of Composers of Russian Federation.
- His compositions were played by orchestras in Moscow, Vladikavkaz, Grozny, and Tbilisi.[3] In 2001 a collection of over one hundred melodies composed by Said Dimayev was released in Moscow, alongside his "Moscow's Autumn" suite.
- He also authored the "Time to Act" oratio.[4] Said died on March 28, 2005.
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