Eduard Mirsojan

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Eduard Mirsojan (right) with Ruben Sargsjan (October 2011)

Eduard Mikajeli Mirsojan ( Armenian Էդուարդ Միքայելի Միրզոյան ; Russian Эдвард Михайлович Мирзоян ; born May 12, 1921 in Gori , Georgia; † October 5, 2012 in Yerevan ) was an Armenian or Soviet composer and politician.

Life

Mirsojan is the son of the composer Michail Mirsojan . In 1924 his family moved to Armenia .

He studied composition with Wardkes Taljan at the Yerevan Conservatory until 1941 and moved to the Armenian House of Culture in Moscow , where he a. a. studied with Nikolai Rakow and Nikolai Peiko . There he composed his first string quartet in 1947 (1947). In 1948 Mirsojan began teaching at the Komitas Conservatory in Yerevan and was head of the composition department from 1972 to 1986. Avet Terterjan and John Ter-Tadewosjan were among his students . From 1957 to 1991 Mirsojan was President of the Union of Armenian Composers.

Mirsojan's work received stylistic influences from Sergei Prokofjew , Dmitri Shostakovich and Béla Bartók and from Armenian folk songs.

His work includes orchestral works, chamber music, vocal works and piano pieces. His best-known works include the symphony for strings and timpani (1962), the poem epitaph In memoriam Aram Chatschaturjan (1988) and the piano cycle Album for my granddaughter (1984). He also composed film music, the lyrical episode Susanik from the film Chaos became widely known in Armenia .

Mirsojan was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR from 1959 to 1990 and a member of the People's Deputies Congress of the Soviet Union from 1989 to 1991 . He received numerous awards, including 1981 as a People's Artist of the USSR .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Renowned Armenian composer Edvard Mirzoyan this at 92
  2. ↑ Svetlana Sarkisyan:  Mirzoyan, Êdvard. In: MGG Online (subscription required).
  3. ^ Obituary ( memento of October 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on ITAR-TASS , October 5, 2012 (Russian)
personal data
SURNAME Mirsojan, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirzoyan, Edvard; Mirsojan, Edward; Միրզոյան, Էդուարդ (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian or Soviet composer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Gori
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2012
Place of death Yerevan