Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
State Philharmonic Orchestra of Uzbekistan, cond. Alibek Kabdurakhmanov
Original video recording, where the namesake dance is also performed: youtube.com/watch?v=xF8apmQ_ccc
Aleksey Kozlovsky (Алексе́й Козло́вский, 1905-1977), born in Kyiv, was a composer, conductor, and teacher who spent most of his life in Uzbekistan. Having studied under Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory, he remained in Moscow in the early 1930s, conducting at the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre. The defining event of Kozlovsky's life would come in 1936 under Stalin's rule, when he was exiled to Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent; he became fascinated with the culture of the Uzbeks and Karakalpaks, an ethnic group in the northwest of the country, and remained in Tashkent until his death. In the 1940s, he also met the renowned poet Anna Akhmatova, who became both a friend and collaborator.
The symphonic poem "Tanovar", written between 1937 and 1952, is one of Kozlovsky's best known works and continues to be performed in his adopted country. Augmenting the traditional array of orchestral percussion with the nagara, a folk drum, it evokes both a traditional dance of Uzbekistan and a love song recorded by the Uzbek singer Halima Nosirova.
State Philharmonic Orchestra of Uzbekistan, cond. Alibek Kabdurakhmanov
Original video recording, where the namesake dance is also performed: youtube.com/watch?v=xF8apmQ_ccc
Aleksey Kozlovsky (Алексе́й Козло́вский, 1905-1977), born in Kyiv, was a composer, conductor, and teacher who spent most of his life in Uzbekistan. Having studied under Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory, he remained in Moscow in the early 1930s, conducting at the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre. The defining event of Kozlovsky's life would come in 1936 under Stalin's rule, when he was exiled to Uzbekistan's capital, Tashkent; he became fascinated with the culture of the Uzbeks and Karakalpaks, an ethnic group in the northwest of the country, and remained in Tashkent until his death. In the 1940s, he also met the renowned poet Anna Akhmatova, who became both a friend and collaborator.
The symphonic poem "Tanovar", written between 1937 and 1952, is one of Kozlovsky's best known works and continues to be performed in his adopted country. Augmenting the traditional array of orchestral percussion with the nagara, a folk drum, it evokes both a traditional dance of Uzbekistan and a love song recorded by the Uzbek singer Halima Nosirova.
