IKROM AKBAROV (1921-2011) - the Honoured Artist of Uzbekistan; graduated from Tashkent (1939-1945) and Leningrad (1945-1954) conservatories. He is a twentieth-century-composer, greatly contributing to the Uzbek symphonic creative work. The creation of artistic compositions in this genre is one of the most complicated creative objects in the West, and particularly in the East, where the music was based on monody. That's why composers (such as Beethoven, Martinu), who actively worked in the field of symphonic music, usually composed their first symphonies only after compositions of small forms such as poem, overture, etc. I.Akbarov in his first score - the poem "In the Memory of Poet" (1934) assimilated symphonic themes and developed them intensively. These achievements became vivid in such compositions as "Epic Poem" (1961), two concertos for violin and orchestra (1962, 1985), "Post" (1970) and "Shakuntalla" (1980) symphonic pictures and "Samarqand Stories" (1972).

Despite the fact that the "Samarqand Stories" was almost a genuine symphony, the composer wrote his "Symphony-epitaph" and "Symphony-poem" only in the 1990s. There were also created concertos for violoncello and or­chestra, and viola and chamber orchestra.

I.Akbarov greatly contributed to the de­velopment of musical-stage genres in Uzbekistan. Such musical dramas and comedies as "Momo yer" (1965), "Bloody wedding" (1973), "Kizbulok" (1967), "Silver wedding" (1969), "Performance before wedding" (1979), "The Queen of Silver City" (1985) were put on stage in Uzbekistan and other countries of Cenral Asia. His "Dream", "Layli and Majnun" and "Navruz" ballets, "The Leopard of Sogd" and "The Primordial Mistake" operas are performed in Tashkent. He is also the author such oratorio and string quartets as Toshkentnoma", "My City", "Eternalmemory", cantatas, a number of film-music, songs and romances.