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Monument to Mukan Tulebaev - was erected on Tulebaev Street on January 29, 2002, in honor of the composer and teacher Tulebaev Mukan Tulebaevich. The author of the sculpture is E. Rakhmadiev, architect K. Zharylgapov. The sculpture of the composer was made of bronze, the casting was made at the Porshen plant. Next to the monument is the Zhetysu (Semirechye) fountain, the fountain complements the sculpture and makes up a common composition with it. The sculpture depicts the composer in full growth, sitting on a chair, his right hand is placed on his left knee, his right leg is slightly bent, his left hand rests on the chair, the composer's gaze is directed into the distance. The composer is wearing trousers, a shirt, a jacket and shoes.
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The monument to M. Tulebaev is located at the beginning of Tulebaev Street, corner of Abay Street, next to the Zhetysu fountain, Medeu district, Almaty city, Republic of Kazakhstan.
GPS coordinates: 43°14'34"N 76°57'00"E
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Tulebaev Mukan Tulebaevich – Kazakh and Soviet composer, conductor and university professor, was born on February 28, 1913 in Sarkand district. Comes from the Sadyr clan, Naiman tribe, Middle Zhuz. Mukan first learned to play the dombra from his uncle, the national poet (Akyn). From 1929 until the end of his studies in 1933, he attended the Pedagogical Technical Center in Kapale. In 1936, he took part in a talent competition and was given the opportunity to undergo further training in what was then Alma-Ata and in Moscow. From 1938 to 1941, he first studied singing at the Kazakh Opera Studio of the Moscow Conservatory. Mukan Tulebayev was released from service in the Red Army at the beginning of the war in 1941 and returned to Almaty and took composition lessons from Yevgeny Brusilovsky until 1946. From 1942 to 1944, he also worked as a conductor of the State Kazakh Orchestra of Folk Instruments. In 1942, he became a member of the Union of Kazakh Composers, and since 1956 its chairman. Together with his teacher Brusilovsky, he wrote the opera Mangeldy during World War II, the premiere of which in 1945 at the Abay Opera Theater brought him his first success as a composer. He celebrated his breakthrough there with his next independent opera, Birshan and Sara, which premiered in 1946. With it, he received the Stalin Prize in 1949. In 1951, Tolebayev was able to complete his composition studies at the Moscow Conservatory with Vladimir Fere and Nikolai Myaskovsky. He then began teaching, and from 1953 taught at the Kazakh National Conservatory in Almaty. Tulebayev died in April 1960.
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