Poor Tigranyan
Poor Tigranjan ( Armenian Արմեն Տիգրանյան ; born December 14, jul. / 26. December 1879 greg. In Alexandropol ; † 10. February 1950 in Tbilisi ) was an Armenian composer.
Tigranjan studied from 1898 to 1902 in Tbilisi with Nikolai Klenowski and Makar Jekmaljan . Then he founded an Armenian national choir in Alexandropol. From 1913 he lived in Tbilisi as a conductor, music teacher and critic. He composed the first Armenian opera Anusch , which premiered in 1912. In addition to other operas, he composed a dance suite for orchestra, the cantata Fifteen Years of Soviet Armenia , theater music, choral works and songs .
literature
Web links
- Biography on musicofarmenia.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Svetlana Sarkisyan: Tigranyan, Armen. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- ^ List of the stage works by Armen Tigranyan based on the MGG in Operone
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tigranjan, poor |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Արմեն Տիգրանյան (Armenian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Armenian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Alexandropol |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 1950 |
| Place of death | Tbilisi |