Säydäà Âev Salix Camaletdin ulñ (pronounced Salix Säydäà Â, also spelled Salikh Saydash(ev) (Tatar Cyrillic: áÃÂùôÃÂÃÂ(õò) áðûøàÃÂðüðûõÃÂôøý ÃÂûÃÂ; , 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 SäydÃ¤à  one of the founding fathers of Tatar professional music.
Säydäà Âev gave a stimulus to development of different genres in Tatar music, such as opera, ballet, musical comedy, symphonic, choral, popular and pop music. The main part of his creative work was music for musical dramatic plays, such as The Blue Shawl (1926) and On Qandñr (1932) by Kärim Tinçurin, The Employer by Taci ÃÂizzät (1928). In 1922-1948 (off and on) Säydäà Âev was a chief of musical division and conductor in Kazan-based Tatar Academic Theatre. At that time Säydäà Âev also arranged concerts.
The Salix Säydäà Âev Museum opened in Kazan in 1990. The State Grand Concert Hall of Tatarstan was named after Säydäà Âev by the Decree of the President of Tatarstan from December 15, 2000. Also, one of the streets in the Vakhitov district in Kazan is named after Säydäà Âev.
Tatar composers as Renat Enikeev, Almaz Monasypov, Rezeda Akhiyarova, Leonid Lubovsky composed several works dedicated to the founder of Soviet Tatar professional music.