Ossetia is a region located on both sides of the
Greater Caucasus Mountains. The folk music of Ossetia () began to be collected and recorded in the late 19th and early 20th century. After the
Revolution of 1917, professional music appeared in Ossetia and in the following decades, a number of
symphonies
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often for orchestra. Although the term has had many meanings from its origins in the ancient Greek era, by the late 18th century the word had taken on the meaning com ...
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ballets,
operas and other institutions were formed. There is an
Ossetian State Philharmonic. The first Ossetian opera was ''Kosta'', by
Christopher Pliev.
Folk music
Ossetian folk music began to be collected in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Boris Galaev
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made substantial contribution to the collection and documentation.
Ossetian folk songs were divided into categories:
* Historic songs
* Revolution songs
* Heroic songs
* Worker's songs
* Wedding songs
* Drinking songs
* Humorous songs
* Dance songs
* Love songs
* Lyrical songs
Ossetian musicians
Notable musicians
Valery Gergiev is of Ossetian descent and has since 1978 pursued a notable international career. He currently conducts the
Mariinsky Theatre the
London Symphony Orchestra and is the artistic director of the
White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. He is also a guest conductor at the
Metropolitan Opera.
Gergiev was born in Moscow, raised in Vladikavkaz and received his musical education from the
St. Petersburg Conservatory. One of his teachers was the Prof.
Ilya Musin the creator of the Leningrad Conducting School that enabled many talented conductors to prosper. Gergiev developed his own style of conducting. He also used his talent to calm the first of revenge in the Caucasus, believing that "music is able to change the world and a person listening to Tchaikovsky's symphonies will not shoot".
Classical musicians
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Veronika Dudarova Veronika Borisovna Dudarova (; os, Дудараты Барисы чызг Вероникæ; January 15, 2009) was a Soviet and Russian conductor, the first woman to succeed as conductor of symphony orchestras in the 20th century. She became a cond ...
- she was the first woman to succeed as a symphony conductor in Russia. She was an ethnic Ossetian born in Baku and educated in Moscow. She created and conducted the Symphony Orchestra of Russia.
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Zlata Chochieva
Zlata Yuryevna Chochieva (russian: Злата Юрьевна Чочиева; born 1 March 1985 in Moscow), is a Russian pianist of Ossetian origin.
Life and career
At the age of 4 she started piano lessons at the Children's Music School "Yakov ...
is an Ossetian pianist,
Merited Artist of the Russian Federation of the
Republic of north Ossetia–Alania.
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Tugan Sokhiev is a conductor of Ossetian origin. In 2008 he became a music director of the
Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse.
Ossetians.com. Tugan Sokhiev
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References
External links
* Iratta.com
Ossetian music
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Music of the Caucasus
Ossetia
Ossetian culture