Avni Mula (1928 – 2020)
Composer, singer “ People’s Artist” & “Honour of the Nation”.
Born in Gjakove on January 4, 1928. Mula studied at the Moscow Conservatory for singing from 1952 to 1957. He came from Kosovo to Shkoder at a very young age, and lived in this city from 1945-1947. Here he came into contact with the famous composer Prenke Jakova. He will write about his first teacher: “He opened for me the windows, the secrets, the beauty and the power that the word music carries.” Prenka, the simple man, few words, passionate, sincere and hard worker. Even today, I don’t forget the words he told me: many writers, especially talented poets, when their verses were inserted into the pentagram of music, they take on unimaginable proportions. I am very grateful to this man”
During his life in Shkoder, he also met Ibrahim Tukiqi, his friend from childhood and youth, where even for 70 years they will never be separated. For 6 years they were together in the Army Ensemble, in Higher Studies in Moscow
(1952-57) where Ibrahimi finished as a tenor and Avni as a baritone. Dozens of concerts together, of the two “People’s Artists” Avni Mula started her artistic career immediately after returning from Moscow as a soloist at the Opera and Ballet Theater, performing leading roles in the operatic repertoire of the time, through which she distinguished herself for the level of high level of musical-scenic solutions.
The performances of Figaro in Rossini’s “Barber of Seville”, Onegin in Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” and Gjeta in Prenk Jakov’s “Mrika” stand out.
He developed a rich concert activity in the country and abroad. He started his creative activity in the second half of the 60s, first in the field of song and romance and then as the author of great vocal concert works, cantatas, vocal and stage poems, where the operettas “Carnivals of Korça” and opera “Borana”. His signature is also carried by many songs of light music, among which “Waltz of happiness”.
His activity is wide in the scene of opera and light music, also as a singer-songwriter. For many years he participated in the Ensemble of Songs and Dances as well as in the Army Ensemble. He has won many awards and has been appreciated for his contribution to the field of music as “People’s Artist” after v. 1990s “Honour of the Nation”. At the age of 80, he returned to the stage at the National Theater of Opera and Ballet in 2008 with a concert entitled
“Waltz of happiness”.
He is the winner of national and international awards, such as the first prize at the Berlin Festival, 1951; The Republic Award of 1-st Class, 1964.
Also, the great artist Avni Mula has composed many songs, of which we can mention: “ My mother will cut the braid ” song which won the first prize at the Song Festival in RTSH in 1976, performed by Vace Zela ; “ Songs of my homeland” , “Waltz of happiness “ ; “ A cradle in the barricade ” sung by Marina Grabovari, winner of the first prize at the RTSH Song Festival in 1982.
Married to the Russian soprano Nina Mula, who has two daughters, the pianist Adelina and the soprano Inva. He is also the composer of 5 Kinostudio feature films, starting in 1975 with “River Light”; “Journey in spring”; 1979 “Balloons”; 1980 “Carnivals”; “1984 “Blerte’s Engagement”.
Mula passed away at the age of 92 on October 29, 2020
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Reference: “Avni Mula” – Profile!; “From the diary of the Albanian composer”; “Encyclopedia of Albanian Cinematography” A. Hoxha
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