Sargis Barchudaryan

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Sargis Barchudarjan ( Armenian Սարգիս Բարխուդարյան ; Russian Сергей Васильевич Бархударян , Sergei Vasilyevich Barchudarjan scientific. Transliteration Sergei Vasil'evič Barchudarjan ; English spelling also Barkhudarian or Barkhudaryan ; born August 26, jul. / 7. September  1887 greg. In Tbilisi , Russian Empire ; † October 29, 1973 ibid, Georgian SSR , Soviet Union ) was an Armenian composer , pianist and teacher .

Life

Sargis Barchudarjan grew up in a family of eight. His early, formative experiences included the sounds of traveling street musicians in Tbilisi and the songs of his mother Varduhi Ivanovna Saipian. He soon got piano lessons, first from 1898 with Sofia Karakhovna, from 1900 to 1907 at the music school in Tbilisi with Yaroslava Stakhovsky and Lucian Truskovsky. His mother sent him to Yerevan in 1900 to study the local Armenian culture . To this end, he also traveled to the cities of Ani , Alexandropol and Etschmiadzin . In Yerevan he met the composer and compatriot Komitas Vardapet , who had a strong influence on him. Back in Tbilisi, the first compositions were written in 1903, the first piece that has survived is a waltz from April 25, 1903. In 1907 he graduated from the music school, where he also studied composition, music theory and solfège with Sakaria Paliaschwili .

In 1907 he won a competition that enabled him to continue his piano training in Berlin at the Royal Academic University of Music . He was also interested in German literature and traveled to Dresden , Freiburg and Leipzig . In 1909 the first volume with around 40 piano miniatures came out, musically influenced by Chopin , Mendelssohn and Schumann , and literarily inspired by Anton Chekhov and Guy de Maupassant . In 1909 he moved to the St. Petersburg Conservatory , where he initially studied composition with Jāzeps Vītols , counterpoint with Wassili Kalafati and instrumentation with Maximilian Steinberg until 1915 . Even during his studies he made further piano works, and a collection published in 1913 was created here, which was well received by renowned composers such as Alexander Glasunow and Anatoly Lyadow . The Four Oriental Dances contained therein were among the first works at the time that not only took up Armenian folk themes and modes, but also processed them into new compositions. His sonata in D minor , which he submitted for his exam, enabled him to complete his studies in 1917.

He then returned to his hometown and after the October Revolution became head of the musical department in the Georgian People's Commissariat for Education. From 1923 to 1954 he worked as a lecturer for music theory and composition at the Tbilisi Conservatory , and since 1941 as a professor. From 1934 to 1937 he also taught at the Yerevan State Conservatory . Since 1923 he undertook numerous concert tours through Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Azerbaijan, during which he combined his own compositions with works from the standard repertoire.

As a pedagogue, he influenced leading composers a whole generation later; his students included Alexander Arutjunjan , Wano Muradeli , Eduard Mirsojan , Ghazaros Sarjan , Otar Taktakishvili , Aleksi Matschawariani , Dawid Toradze and Arno Babadschanjan . Barchudarjan died in Tbilisi in October 1973 and was buried in Yerevan. After his death, an art school was founded in Yerevan that bears his name.

Create

Barchudarjan composed mainly pieces in smaller forms for piano, his main genre is "the art of musical miniature". But while his predecessors such as Nikoghayos Tigranyan and Komitas Vardapet rearranged and interpreted the traditional melodies, he went a step further and only used the Armenian motifs and modes as vocabulary in order to create new, own themes and compositions from them. The two booklets of his piano pieces contain music from 1910 to 1918 and 1915 to 1923. The Twelve Armenian Dances from 1943 followed later .

In addition to piano works, his oeuvre also included one of the first Armenian ballets ( Narine , 1938), a children's opera ( Keri-Kutschi after Howhannes Tumanjan , 1945) and orchestral works - including suites , a symphonic poem ( Anusch after Tumanjan, 1917) and an overture ( 1942 , created in 1943). He also left behind pieces for wind and chamber ensembles, choir and vocal works, etc. a. Romances to texts by Avetik Issahakjan and song arrangements based on Sayat Nova , as well as music for theater and film.

Awards

literature

  • Detlef Gojowy:  Barkhudarian, Sarkis. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  • Meri Georgievna Magakian: Sarkis Barchudarjan . Sovetakan grokh, Yerevan 1978, OCLC 5726301 (Russian, 94 pages).
  • Alexander Issaakowitsch Schawjerdjan: Ocherki po istorii armianskoĭ muzyki XIX-XX vekov . Gos. muzykal'noe izd-vo, Moscow 1959 (Russian, 447 pages).
  • Ernst Stöckl:  Barchudarjan, Sarkis. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  • Margarita Pogossovna Ter-Simonjan: Sargis Barchudarjan. Ocherk zhizni i tvorchestva . Hayastan Hratarakchʻutʻyun, Yerevan 1968, OCLC 55639323 (Armenian, 75 pages).

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Most sources give September 7th, 1887 (Gregorian) as the date of birth, occasionally also September 8th or 20th. Most sources cite October 29, 1973 as the date of death, some also October 25. New Grove mentions October 29, 1972.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV in: naxos (English)
  2. ↑ a b c Detlef Gojowy:  Barkhudarian, Sarkis. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hayk Melikjan: Sarkis Barkhudarjan (1887–1973). (PDF) In: Booklet for Mikael Ayrapetyan's CD on the Grand Piano label (GP 775). 2018, accessed November 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Ernst Stöckl:  Barchudarjan, Sarkis. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  5. ↑ Barchudarjan, Sergei (Sarkis) Wassiljewitsch . In: Juri Wsewolodowitsch Keldysch (ed.): Musykalnaja Enziklopedija . Sovetskaja enziklopedija and Sovetsky composer, Moscow 1982 (Russian, music-dic.ru ).
  6. ↑ Barkhudarian, Sergei Vasilevich on persons-info (Russian)
  7. ↑ a b c Barchudarjan, Sergei in: bigenc (Russian)
  8. ↑ a b Sargis Barkhudaryan on armenianpiano (English)
  9. ↑ a b c Barkhudaryan, Sergey Vasilevich on biografija.ru (Russian)
  10. ↑ Article Barchudarjan, Sergei Wassiljewitsch in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D099003~2a%3DBarchudarjan%2C%20Sergei%20Wassiljewitsch~2b%3DBarchudarjan%2C%20Sergei%20Wassiljewitsch
personal data
SURNAME Barchudaryan, Sargis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barkhudaryan, Sergei Vasilevich; Barkhudaryan, Sarkis Vasilevich; Բարխուդարյան, Սարգիս (Armenian); Бархударя́н, Серге́й Васи́льевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1973
Place of death Tbilisi , Soviet Union