Araxi Arzrunowna Arutjunjan-Sarjan

Araxi Saryan Arzrunowna (married Araxi Arzrunowna Arutyunyan, Armenian Արաքսի Արծրունու Սարյան (Հարությունյան) russian Аракси Арцруновна Сарьян (Арутюнян) ; born  17th August 1937 in Leninakan , Armenian SSR , Soviet Union ;. Died 26. September 2013 in Yerevan , Armenia ) was an Armenian-Soviet musicologist .

biography

Araxi Sarjan's father Arzuruna Arutjunjan (1910-1994) was an artist and director of the Leninakan Dramatic Theater. Her mother Sofia Akopjan (1911–2003) was a teacher. Her uncle Warasdat Arutjunjan (1909-2008) was an architectural historian, member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences and Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR. Araxi Sarjan's husband Lasar Sarjan (1920–1998) was a composer, teacher and folk artist of the Soviet Union. Their first daughter Sarjan Lusik Lasarewna (1969–1991) was a pianist; her second daughter Sarjan Sofia Lasarewna (born 1971) is the chief curator of the Martiros Sarjan Museum.

Career

Araxi Sarjan attended the Alexander Pushkin Leninakan Middle School, which she graduated with a medal. Then she went to the Kara-Mursa Music Academy, which she left with a diploma with distinction.

From 1955 Araxi Sarjan studied at the State Medical Institute Yerevan. She graduated from the first year with excellent grades, but in the second year she switched to the history and theory faculty of the Yerevan State Conservatory .

After graduating from the Conservatory, in 1962 she became a doctoral candidate with Robert Atajan at the Institute for Archeology and Ethnography of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences. From 1965 Araksi Sarajan worked at the same institute as a junior scientist. In 1969 she defended her dissertation on "Armenian Urban Folk Songs (19th - 20th Century)" and became a candidate for science.

While she was still studying at the conservatory, she was already teaching music literature at the music schools Dikran Tschuchadschjan and Pyotr Tchaikovsky and worked as a music editor for the state broadcasting committee.

Araxi Sarjan was one of the first teachers at the Student Philharmonic.

She took an active part in many events of the popular science society “Knowledge”.

Araxi Sarjan taught at the Yerevan State Conservatory from 1968 until the end of her life. She gave courses in music history. From 1995 she headed the Faculty of Music History.

From 1966 she was a member of the Composers' Union of Armenia and chairwoman of the musicology section. From 2004 Araksi Sarjan was chairman of the commission for the award of state music prizes of the Republic of Armenia.

Works

Araksi Sarjan did research, published monographs, wrote books and was an editor and translator. She took part in conferences and gave opening speeches at concerts. She designed radio and television programs and wrote articles and reviews for newspapers and magazines.

• "Армянское городское народное песнетворчество (19 - 20 в.в.)" ("Հայ քաղաքային ժողովրդական երգարվեստը"). Редактор Р. Атаян. "Этнография и фольклор", 4-й том (стр. 85 - 174). Ереван, изд. АН Арм ССР, 1973
• "Медея Абрамян" (в соавторстве с А. Барсамян) ("Մեդեա Աբրահամյան"). Ред. З. Тер-Казарян, Ереван, изд. “Archesh”, 2000
• «Сирвард Гараманук. Жизнь, осмысленная музыкой »(« Սիրվարդ Գարամանուկ: Երաժշտությամբ իմաստավորված կյանք »). Ред. Г. Бахчинян. Ереван, изд. Музея литературы и искусства, 2007
• "Татул Алтунян и армянская песня и танец" ("Թաթուլ Ալթունյանը և հայ երգն ու պարը"). Ред. А. Енокян. Ереван, изд. “Komitas”, 2008
• «Левон Мамиконян. Музыка, сопровождающая жизнь »(« Լևոն Մամիկոնյան: Երժշտությունը `կյանքի ուղեկից»). Ред. А. Енокян. Ереван, изд. «Comitas», 2010
• «Самсон Гаспарян. Музыковед и деятель »(« Սամսոն Գասպարյան: Երաժշտագետն ու գործիչը »). Ред. М. Ароян, Составитель архивных материалов Ц. Бекарян. Ереван, изд. «Comitas», 2010
• Спецредактор армянского перевода монографии Сергея Яковенко «Волшебная Зара Долуханова». Ереван, изд. “Amroz Grup”, 2009

Web links

• Арутюнян Аракси Арцруновна. In: Энциклопедия фонда «Хайазг». Retrieved November 25, 2017 (Russian). 
• Тагуи АСЛАНЯН: Аракси САРЬЯН: Я прожила свою жизнь с ним, как в сказке. In: Собеседник Армении. March 5, 2014, archived from the original on April 21, 2014 ; Retrieved November 25, 2017 (Russian).