Kayane Chebotaryan

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Gayane Mowsessi Tschebotarjan ( Armenian Գայանե Մովսեսի Չեբոտարյան ; Russian Гаянэ Моисеевна (Мовсесовна) Чеботарян ;. Scientific transliteration Gajane Moiséevna (Movsésovna) Čebotarján ; also Chebotarian or Tchebotaryan * 9. November 1918 in Rostov-on-Don , RSFSR ; † 16th January 1998 in Moscow , Russia ) was an Armenian- Soviet composer , musicologist and educator .

Life

She was born in the later Rostov district of Nor-Nakhichevan , which was founded by the Armenians . After attending the music school in Rostov, she studied composition with Christofor Kuschnarjow and piano with Moisei Khalfin at the Leningrad Conservatory from 1938 . She completed her studies at the conservatory, which was relocated to Tashkent during the war , in 1943. Then she moved to the Yerevan Conservatory - at the invitation of the then Rector Konstantin Saradschew . From 1947 she taught there herself and founded a research focus that dealt with the polyphonic aspects in Armenian music. In 1965 she was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR . Her main musicological work - an investigation into the polyphony in Aram Chatschaturjan's work - was published in 1969. In 1977 she took over a professorship at the Conservatory. As a musicologist, she wrote other writings, articles and essays on Armenian and Soviet music. She taught in Yerevan for more than 35 years, valued by friends she was friends with, such as Shostakovich , Kabalewski and Khrennikov . After the death of her husband, the Armenian cultural politician Aschot Stepanjan, she moved to Moscow in 1984 to live with her son, the author and literary scholar Karen Stepanjan. The composer Jewgenija Jachnina wrote the piece Dedication in her memory .

style

Her compositional work includes orchestral, choral, chamber and especially piano music. In her work there are elements of the Armenian musical culture , but also influences from the classical Russian tradition. Stylistically, she, who was one of the first women to become a member of the Armenian Composers' Association, found her own musical language between late Romanticism and Impressionism , between neoclassicism , moderate modernism and Armenian coloring in the wake of Khachaturian. Her most popular work is the early, one-movement piano trio (1945), which has been recorded several times on CD. Orchestral works such as Hayastan (1947) or the symphonic pictures Tonakatarut'yun (1950) are committed to the Soviet contemporary style. In the Polyphonic Album for the Young (1972), which comprises 13 programmatic pieces, and in the cycle Preludes and Fugues on Armenian Wise Men (1979), she combines classical compositional methods such as fugue , inversion , passacaglia , aria and chorale with melodies from popular culture. By combining such techniques with Armenian sages like Hoy, in Nazani yare, she explores new ways of connecting tradition and the music of the 20th century. Her style is described as melodious and expressive, characteristic of many of her compositions is a mood of restrained melancholy.

Works

  • Pieces for piano, 1934/39
  • Piano sonata , 1943
  • Piano trio , 1945
  • String trio , 1948
  • Hayastan [Armenia], poem cantata for choir and orchestra, 1947
  • Preludes for piano, 1948
  • It's spring for a cappella choir, 1948
  • Piano Sonata , 1953
  • Tonakatarut'yun [Festival], Symphonic Pictures, 1950
  • 2 romances (text: Howhannes Schiras ), 1962
  • Concert Etudes for Piano, 1963
  • Polifonik albom patanekut'yan hamar [Polyphonic album for the youth] for piano, 1972
  • Posvyashchenia [dedication] for piano, 1972
  • Tell me have you seen my country for choir, 1973
  • String Quartet , 1978
  • Preludes and Fugues on Armenian Wise Men , cycle for piano, 1979
  • Waltz for orchestra, 1979
  • Piano concerto , 1980
  • String Quartet , 1990
  • 12 pieces on popular themes for piano, 1991

Fonts

  • Gayane Movsesova Čebotarjan: Polifonija v tvorčestve Arama Chačaturjana [Polyphony in Aram Chačaturjan's works] . Ayastan, Yerevan 1969 (Russian).
  • Gajaneh M. Čebotarjan: Ch. S. Kušnarev: očerk žizni i tvorčestva; k 100-letiju so dnja roždenija . Sovetskij Kompozitor, Leningrad 1990, ISBN 5-85285-250-3 (Russian).

literature

  • Şahan Arzruni:  Chebotarian, Gayane. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • Şahan Arzruni: Č'ebotaryan, Gayane (Movses) . In: Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel (Eds.): The Norton / Grove dictionary of women composers . Norton, New York 1995, ISBN 0-333-51598-6 , pp. 111 .
  • Pamela Youngdahl Dees: Piano Music by Women Composers. Women Born After 1900 . tape 2 . Praeger, Greenwood, Westport, Connecticut 2004, ISBN 0-313-31990-1 , pp. 42 .
  • Evgenija Isaakovna Gilina: Gajanė Čebotarjan: očerk žižni i dejatel'nosti . Armjanskie kompozitory. Sovetakan Groch, Yerevan 1979 (Russian).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Şahan Arzruni:  Chebotarian, Gayane. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Obituary in Коктейл No. 44 from 7. – 13. November 1998 (Russian)
  3. ↑ CV on tarakanov.net (Russian)
  4. ↑ a b c d e CV and list of works at dic.academic.ru (Russian)
  5. ↑ a b c d Şahan Arzruni: Č'ebotaryan, Gayane (Movses) . In: Julie Anne Sadie, Rhian Samuel (Eds.): The Norton / Grove dictionary of women composers . Norton, New York 1995, ISBN 0-333-51598-6 , pp. 111 .
  6. ↑ Karen Stepanyan (Russian)
  7. ↑ Chebotarian - Piano Trio on DB Productions
  8. ^ Recordings of the piano trio (1945) at musicweb-international
  9. ↑ Article on Tchebotaryan's composition technique (Russian)
  10. ↑ January Tamzejian: Métissages et l'enseignement artistique transversalité dans . Piano classique. Cefedem, Rhône-Alpes 2008, p. 18th f . (French, cefedem-aura.org [PDF; accessed on November 28, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Chebotaryan, Gajane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chebotaryan, Gajane Mowsessi (full name); Tschebotarján, Gajané Moisséewna; Chebotarjan, Gajané Mowsésowna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov-on-Don , RSFSR
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1998
Place of death Moscow , Russia