Background
Suleiman Yudakov, a Bukharian Jew, was born in Kokand, and started to devote himself to music in the orphanage where he spent three years of his childhood.
Suleiman Yudakov, a Bukharian Jew, was born in Kokand, and started to devote himself to music in the orphanage where he spent three years of his childhood.
Moscow Conservatory.
In 1932, he was accepted to the so-called rabfak (рабочий факультет, or workers" faculty - an educational establishment set up to prepare workers and peasants for higher education) of the Moscow Conservatory majoring as a flautist. In 1939, Suleiman Yudakov became a student in the class of Reinhold Glière at the conservatory"s Department of Composing. In 1941, he had to interrupt his studies due to the outbreak of the war and leave for Tashkent, where he remained until his death.
Stalin Prize, 1951.
Union of Soviet Composers.