Nurgisa Tlendiev Memorial Museum (
Russian: Мемориальный музей Тлендиева) is a museum dedicated to the composer,
Hero of Kazakhstan, and
People's Artist of the USSR
People's Artist of the USSR ( rus, Народный артист СССР, Narodny artist SSSR), also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union.
Nomenclature and significan ...
, which is located in
Almaty
Almaty (; kk, Алматы; ), formerly known as Alma-Ata ( kk, Алма-Ата), is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of about 2 million. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to ...
, Kazakhstan.
History
The museum was opened on the eve of Tlendiyev's 90th anniversary, and on the eve of
International Museum Day in 2014. The museum is located in the historic center of the city, in a residential building, where the composer and his family lived for the last years of his life. The opening of the museum complex was attended by former
akim
An ''akim'' ( kk, әкім, әкімдер / ''äkimder''; ky, аким; russian: аким) is the head of a local government in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. ''Akim'', meaning "God will establish", is derived from the Arabic word '' hakim'', whi ...
of Almaty,
Akhmetzhan Yessimov. The total area of the memorial museum is 169 square meters.
The house where museum is located was built in 1979 on the special order of
First Secretary First Secretary may refer to:
* First minister, a leader of a government
* Secretary (title), a leader of a political party (especially Communist parties), trade union, or other organization
* First Secretary (diplomatic rank), a role within an emba ...
of the
Communist Party of Kazakhstan Dinmukhamed Kunaev. The museum is part of the museum association of Almaty (including the
Almaty Museum, the
Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments, the
Kunaev Home Museum, and the ) and promotes Tlendiev's musical work.
Museum exposition
The museum displays handwritten
scores, an antique grand piano and stringed musical instrument "Dariga dombyra", which was an inspiration in Tlendiev's work. The main assets of museum-apartment are items used by composer during his lifetime. A trunk, a table on which he wrote his works, photographs of family members and others are preserved in the museum. It also displays his childhood belongings and ethnographic objects of the Kazakh people.
The apartment has been preserved and recreated as it was Tlendiev's lifetime. The museum has four rooms, with the displays arranged in chronological order - the entrance hall - childhood and adolescence, living room – creations and acquaintances, work hall – musical heritage, kitchen and recreation room – photos of family, gifts and souvenirs.
References
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Museums in Almaty
Museums established in 2014
Music museums