Säydäşev Salix Camaletdin ulı (pronounced [sæɪˈdæʃəf sæˈlʲix ʑʌmɑletˌdinuˈlɯ] aka Salix Säydäş, also spelled Salikh Saydash(ev)[1] [sæˈlʲix sæɪˈdæʃ(əf)] (Tatar Cyrillic: Сәйдәш(ев) Салих Җамалетдин улы; Russian: Сайда́шев Сали́х Замалетди́нович, Saydashev Salikh Zamaletdinovich; 1900 – December 16, 1954) was a Tatar composer and conductor.
People's Artist of Tatar ASSR (1951), Honoured Worker of Culture (1939).
Salix Säydäş one of the founding fathers of Tatar professional music.
In 1922-1948 (off and on) Säydäşev was a chief of musical division and conductor in Kazan-based Tatar Academic Theatre.
Tatar composers as Renat Enikeev, Almaz Monasypov, Rezeda Akhiyarova, Leonid Lubovsky composed several works dedicated to the founder of Soviet Tatar professional music.