Ashot Sohrabyan

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Ashot Patwakani Sohrabjan ( Armenian Աշոտ Պատվականի Զոհրաբյան , Russian Ашот Патваканович Зограбян , Ashot Patwakanowitsch Sograbjan , scientific. Transliteration ASOT Patvakanovič Zograbjan * 29. January 1945 in Yerevan ) is an Armenian composer .

Life

Growing up in Yerevan, he and his family were deported to Siberia in 1952 . After returning in the thaw period , he first took composition lessons with Tigran Mansurjan , then studied from 1963 to 1967 at the Melikjan School of Music with Eduard Baghdassarjan and from 1967 to 1972 at the Yerevan Conservatory with Grigor Jeghiasarjan . After graduating, he taught harmony at the Arno Babadschanjan Music College from 1972 . From 1981 he taught orchestration and composition at the Yerevan Conservatory , since 1993 as a professor .

In 1973 he became a member of the Armenian Composers Association and in 1990 of the Society for Contemporary Music. In 1993 he received the Chatschaturjan Prize of the Armenian Ministry of Culture for his composition Parable . Sohrabjan a. a. with soloists from the Bolshoi Ensemble and with the Kronos Quartet . Among his students were David Balasanjan (* 1983) and Hovik Sardaryan (* 1993).

style

Sohrabjan's work includes orchestral, chamber, vocal, piano and organ music. Chamber music is at the center of his work. Stylistically, he merges the musical language of modern times with elements of Armenian musical culture such as Tagh , a lyrical, monodic form of singing. His music was initially influenced by serial techniques in the tradition of Webern and Boulez , by microtonal elements in the wake of Ligeti and by the Soviet avant-garde around Edisson Denissow and Walentyn Sylwestrow . The two booklets of the Boomerang Games (1973/75) are his early major works , in which he unfolds an initial state into a variety of rhythmic variations and ties in with instrumental improvisations in the music of the Middle East. From 1980 his music continued to gain color and expressiveness, a contemplative, static and elegiac force that pervades his entire oeuvre remains characteristic: a “meditative immersion into the depths of the sound”. He therefore belongs to a generation of Armenian composers who set themselves apart from the popular folkloric style of Khachaturian and rather referred to Komitas Vardapet , a pioneer of Armenian art music. Sohrabjan's music has been performed in many countries around the world, including a. at the Center Pompidou in Paris, at the Hallische Musiktage , at the Holland Festival , at the Witten Days for New Chamber Music (1987), at the Festival in Norfolk, USA (2003), in London (2009) and at the Festival 4020 in Linz (2011) . The composer Tigran Mansurjan dedicated the clarinet piece Parable (2011) to Sohrabjan - with reference to his orchestral work of the same name .

Works (selection)

orchestra

  • Variations , 1971/1982
  • Concert elegy for 12 strings, 1980
  • Hommage à Medzarents , symphonic poem for chamber orchestra, 1981/1986
  • Serenade for small orchestra (13 instruments), 1982/85
  • Concerto for violin and string orchestra, 1987/89
  • Parable for small orchestra (13 instruments), 1992

Chamber music

  • Boomerang-Spiele No. 1 for flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello and piano, 1973
  • Boomerang-Spiele No. 2 for flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello, piano and percussion, 1975
  • Sonata No. 1 for cello and piano, 1976
  • Sonata No. 2 for cello and piano, 1980
  • Morning song for wind quintet, 1983/88
  • Rituel , 3 flutes, 1993
  • String Quartet No. 1 , Narcissus , 1996
  • String Quartet No. 2 , For Kronos , 1998
  • Novelette , piano quartet, 2009

vocal

  • Circles , cycle for voice and instrumental ensemble (texts by Misag Medzarents and Daniel Waruschan ), 1972
  • Red bread (text by Misag Medzarents), 1973
  • Evening songs (texts by Daniel Waruschan and Misag Medzarents) for voice and piano, 1982/85
  • An den Knaben Elis (text by Georg Trakl ) for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, cello and piano, 1994
  • Neue Taghs (texts by Daniel Waruschan and Mesrop Maschtoz ) for mezzo-soprano, 2 violins, cello and piano, 1995
  • Lux fulgebit (text from Psalm 92 ) for mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, 2 violins, viola and cello, 1997

literature

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The sources differ greatly in the dates of the creation of the individual works. In case of doubt, the information in the specialist literature applies.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Svetlana Sarkisyan:  Zohrabian, Ashot Patvakani. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ Conversation with the composer on May 4, 2011 at the Festival 4020 in Linz
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Svetlana Sarkisyan:  Zohrabyan, Ašot. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 17 (Vina - Zykan). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-7618-1137-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  4. ↑ Hovik Sardaryan on tonali.de
  5. ↑ a b c d Svetlana Sarkisjan: Confession to the Armenian tradition at Ashot Sograbjan . In: Hermann Danuser, Hannelore Gerlach, Jürgen Köchel (eds.): Soviet music in the light of perestroika . Laaber, Laaber 1990, ISBN 3-89007-120-1 , pp. 215-220 .
  6. ↑ a b Tatjana Porwoll: Oscillations of the Cosmos - Contemporary Music from Armenia . In: MusikTexte . No. 32 , 1989, ISSN  0178-8884 , pp. 21–23 ( terterian.org [accessed November 25, 2018]).
  7. ^ Parable by Tigran Mansurjan , dedicated to Ashot Sohrabyan
personal data
SURNAME Sohrabyan, Ashot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sohrabjan, Ashot Patwakani (full name); Sograbjan, Aschot Patwakanowitsch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Yerevan , Soviet Union