Abai Qunanbaiuly compositions sheet music and chords

Abai (Ibrahim) Kunanbayev (Kazakh: Абай Құнанбайул; July 29 [August 10], 1845, Zhidebai tract, Chingiztau, Biysk district, Tomsk province, Russian Empire – June 23 [July 6], 1904, Zhidebai, Semipalatinsk district, Semipalatinsk region, Russian Empire) was a Kazakh poet, philosopher, musician, public educator, public figure, the founder of Kazakh written literature and its first classic, a cultural reformer in the spirit of rapprochement with European culture based on the culture of enlightened Islam. He was one of the first Kazakh writers who actively used prose in his works, expanding the genre boundaries of Kazakh literature. Abai was also a composer. He did not write down songs to his own words or translations of Russian and European poets. Popular among the people, they were recorded after the revolution by Bimboes A.E., Zataevich A.V., Khamidi L.A., Zhubanov A.K., Erzakovich B.G. He created about two dozen melodies that combine features of Kazakh and Russian melodies. Among his songs, "Kozimnin karasy" ("You are the pupil of my eyes", translated by Maria Petrovykh) became a folk song.