FROM THE HISTORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Performance of classical music and poetry have always been an important part of elite traditions. Tashkent became the administrative center of Turkestan in the second half of the XIX century. And since the fall of the Kakand khanate, this city begins to acquire the value of an outpost of cultural and economic relations of the entire region of Central Asia. Thus, the figure of Hafiz Mulla Tuychi Tashmukhammedov (1856-1942) comes to the fore of the musical life of the Old city of Tashkent. The term "Hafiz" meant a rather high title in the musical vocabulary of the time. Its main criteria are adherence to Sufi traditions, as well as the presence of an expressive voice, special musicality and the ability to be a leader in elite music collections, in religious chants and in the rites of Zikr. The Mulla Tuychi is a pupil of Hofiz Hudayberdi from Isfara, whose lineage goes back to the very Khudayberdi Ustoz. He did not possess a very high voice unlike his mentor. However, the skill of his expressive singing and the ability to have a magical effect on the audience took in full. This feature of the staid fascinating singing has become one of the characteristic features of the style of Mulla Tuychi. Then, this line became one of the stylistic particularities of the whole “Tashkent school”. Subsequent generations of Tashkent singers and musicians, including Yunus Rajabi, began to imitate the style of Mulla Tuychi.