Sadíqova Sara Ğärif qızı (pronounced ) Sara Sadíqova; Tatar Cyrillic: Садыйкова Сара Гариф кызы; russian: Сады́кова Сара́ Гари́фовна; 1 November 1906 – 7 June 1986) was a

Tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

), and composer. Honoured Artist of

Tatar ASSR The Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (russian: Татарская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика; tt-Cyrl, Татарстан Автономияле Совет Соци� ...

(1937), People's Artist of Tatar ASSR (1977), Honoured Worker of Culture of the Russian SFSR (1984). In 1938–1948 she was a soloist of Musa Cälil Tatar Opera and Ballet Theatre. Sara performed parts in operas and musical comedies including ''Saniä'', ''Qaçqın'' (''Runaway''), ''Ğäliäbanu'', ''Başmağım'' (''My Slippers''), ''İldar'', musical dramas ''On Qandır'', ''The Employer''. She is an author both of many song and musical comedies ''Mäxäbbät cırı'' (''The Song of Love'') (1971), and ''Kiäwlär'' (''Sons-in-law'') (1972) in collaboration with R. Ğöbäydullin. Sara Sadíqova is a laureate of the Ğabdulla Tuqay Tatar ASSR State Prize (1990, after her death). She was born as Bibisara Sadíqova on November 1, 1906 in

Kazan Kazan ( ; rus, Казань, p=kɐˈzanʲ; tt-Cyrl, Казан, ''Qazan'', IPA: ɑzan is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka rivers, covering a ...

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. She graduated from a famous school for girls and entered teachers' training college. In 1921 Bibisara performed her first part in the musical charity performance ''Buydaq'' (''The Bachelor''). One of the college's teachers, Tatar composer Soltan Ğäbäşi, sent her to the

Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

, where she studied from 1922–1928. In 1934–1938 she worked at the Tatar Opera Studio within Moscow Conservatory. In 1930–1934 Sara Sadíqova worked in the troupe of the Tatar Academic Theater. She performed one of the first Tatar operas ''Eşçe'' (''The Worker'') in the 1930s. In 1942 Sara started to compose songs, creating the

tango Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay. The tango was born in the impoverished port areas of these countries as the result of a combina ...

''The Expectation'' on lyrics of A. Yerikeyev. Her favorite styles were the tango and

foxtrot The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor. It is danced to big band (usually vocal) music. The dance is similar in its look to waltz, although the rhythm is in a tim ...

. She composed more than 400 popular songs as well as music for 30 plays. Sara Sadíqova died on 7 June 1986 and was buried at the Memorial Yaña-Tatar Bistäse (Novotatarskoye) cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadiqova, Sara 1906 births 1986 deaths Musicians from Kazan Soviet composers Soviet women composers Russian composers Russian women composers Tatar people of the Soviet Union Tatar musicians Soviet sopranos 20th-century women composers Moscow Conservatory alumni Soviet women opera singers Actors from Kazan

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