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  • 80th Birth Anniversary Of Composer Edgar Hovhannisyan To Be Celebrat

    80TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY OF COMPOSER EDGAR HOVHANNISYAN TO BE CELEBRATED IN YEREVAN

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    01.02.2010 16:46 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ On February 5, Aram Khachaturian concert hall will
    host a concert in celebration of composer Edgar Hovhannisyan's 80th
    birth anniversary.

    Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra, under the guidance of Vardan Hokobyan
    will perform a concert program featuring compositions of Hovhannisyan,
    Spendiarian and Prokofiev.

    Edgar Hovhannisyan, (January 14, 1930 - December 28, 1998) was
    an Armenian composer, Professor of Composition at Yerevan State
    Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1986).

    He graduated from Yerevan State Conservatory in 1953, then pursued
    post-graduate work at the Moscow Conservatory, under famed Armenian
    composer Aram Khachaturian. He was the director of the State Opera
    and Ballet Theater in Yerevan in 1962-1968.

    Hovhannisyan is widely considered among the most influential Armenian
    composers of the 20th century. He is the author of ballets, including
    "Joan of Arc", "Sulamif", and "Marmar". He also experimented with
    various musical styles, including neo-classical, folk-based styles,
    and even jazz ("Concert Variations for Saxophone and Jazz Orchestra"),
    opera ("The Travel to Erzrum"), various vocal-orchestral works (e.g.

    the oratorio "Grikor Naregatsi", the hymn of Yerevan), and numerous
    film scores.
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