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In the reading room of the Art Department, a book exhibition «Gazhaiyp Daryn» was organized, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the famous musicologist, teacher, professor of the Almaty State Conservatory named after Kurmangazу Gafura Nurgalievna Bisenova.

Gafura Bisenova was born in the Taipak district of the West Kazakhstan region. She graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Faculty of the Ural Pedagogical Institute in 1945, and from the Historical and Theoretical Faculty of the Alma-Ata Conservatory in 1953. She worked as a teacher of music history at the Tchaikovsky Music College, a junior researcher at the Art History Sector of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR. Since 1955 - Senior lecturer, since 1968 - Associate professor of the Department of Music History at the Kurmangazy Institute of Arts.

Gafura Nurgalievna Bisenova is an Honored worker of the secondary school of the Kazakh SSR. She studied the problems of Kazakh folk and modern music, the musical heritage of Abai and defended her PhD thesis in 1966 on the topic:»The songwriting of Abai Kunanbayev», written under the guidance of academician Akhmet Kuanovich Zhubanov. This work, created thirty years ago, is still the most complete, in-depth and versatile historical and theoretical study of the great poet's songwriting.

Everyone knew Gafura Bisenova – at the conservatory, in the music world, in the circles of the Kazakh intelligentsia. Amid the troubles of our lives, she always radiated benevolence, calmness, and true intelligence.Her list of publications is not particularly long, but it reflects the breadth of her research interests. These are traditional Kazakh music – songs by Abai and Saken Seifullin, kuis of Kurmangazy and Dina Nurpeisova, the work of singer Garifulla Kurmangaliev and opuses by contemporary composers – Mukan Tulebayev, Akhmet Zhubanov, Latif Hamidi, Evgeny Brusilovsky, Yerkegali Rakhmadiev.Gafura Nurgalievna gave a lot of effort to the formation of her native conservatory. The curricula she created for the history of Russian and Kazakh music courses are still used in the educational process.

The purpose of the exhibition is to introduce readers to the work of the musicologist and teacher. The book exhibition presents books that reveal the life and creative path of G. Bisenova: «Abai's songwriting»;»B. Amanov. Kazakh traditional music of the twentieth century»; «Musical culture of Kazakhstan»; «Klassikalyk zertteuler»; «Essays on the history of Kazakh Soviet music» and others. Readers will also be interested in materials about the life of Gafura Bisenova, published on the pages of periodicals.