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{{Hatnote|This is a Kazakh name. ''Gaziza'' is the [[given name]], and ''Zhubanova'' is a [[patronymic]], not a [[surname|family name]].}}
'''Gaziza Akhmetovna Zhubanova''' ({{lang-kk|Ғазиза Жұбанова}}; {{lang-ru|Газиза Ахметовна Жубанова}}; 2 December 1927 – 13 December 1993) is the first [[Kazakhs|Kazakh]] woman composer.

==Life==
Gaziza Zhubanova was born 2 December 1927 (some sources state 1928) in a village in the Jurun District, [[Aktyubinsk]]. Zhubanova attended school in Alma-Ata, [[Kazakhstan]], and graduated with honors. She was the daughter of [[Akhmet Zhubanov]], a university educated musician, and grew up in a musical environment.

In 1945 Gaziza Zhubanova began studying at Gnesin Music College in [[Moscow]]. After completing her studies there, she studied composition with [[Yuri Shaporin]], at the [[Moscow Conservatoire]]. After graduating in 1954, she took additional studies in composition and then in 1957 began a career as a composer.

In 1954, she participated in the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the Kazakh Union of Composers. Gaziza Zhubanova has been Chairman of Kazakh Union of Composers, a member of the board of the USSR Union of Composers and Deputy to the Alma-Ata City Soviet. She often works with the Kazakh Song and Dance Company.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sites.google.com/site/gazizazhubanova/home/engl-1|title=Gaziza Zhubanova|accessdate=27 September 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&pg=PA509&lpg=PA509&dq=Gaziza+Zhubanova+norton+grove&source=bl&ots=iHxxuNHzod&sig=RU5Ukw92dRm57fOQM4pPkITRcP8&hl=en&ei=UIXbTJ2PLoPGlQei7oyQCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|format=Digitized online by GoogleBooks|first=Julie Anne|last=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|accessdate=4 October 2010}}</ref>

==Selected works==

Gaziza Zhubanova uses subjects and images from the Kazakh history and folklore. She has composed in different forms, including piano, violin, voice, chorus, string quartet and popular songs.

*Aksak Kulan (1953–1954), symphonic poem
*Booming in the night (1916), opera
*Violin Concerto (1957)
*''Melody'' (Мелодия) in C{{music|sharp}} minor for viola and piano (1950)
*Night Light in the Ural (1957), cantata (words by Khamit Ergaliev)
*Incidental music for On the Banks of the Irtysh (play by S. Kusainov)
*Ode to the Communist Party
*Glory to the Cosmonaut
*Embrace
*Ye Millions!
*Song of Virgin Lands Enthusiasts
*The Song Is the Voice of My Heart
*The Earth, the Moon and Sputnik, ballet (choreography by V. Vainonen)
*Ballade of Mukhtar Auezov, cantata
*A Legend of the White Bird, ballet

==References==
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[[Category:1927 births]]
[[Category:1993 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Mugalzhar District]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani composers]]
[[Category:Female classical composers]]
[[Category:Kazakhstani opera composers]]
[[Category:Soviet opera composers]]
[[Category:Moscow Conservatory alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century classical composers]]
[[Category:Female opera composers]]

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