Sayat Nova

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Russian postage stamp from 1962
Sayat Nova plays the long-necked lute saz , accompanied by the spit-fiddle kamança . Drawing from 1923

Sayat Nova , Armenian Սայաթ-Նովա Sajat-Nowa , "King of song", also Arutin Sayadan ; Born in Arutin, Harutjun Արութին, Հարութիւն , (born June 14, 1712 in Tbilisi , † September 22, 1795 in Haghpat ) was an Armenian Aschyq (singer, poet and composer) and clergyman .

Life

Sayat Nova's mother came from Sanahin in northern Armenia. He spent his childhood in a village near the Georgian capital Tbilisi. From a young age he was a talented writer of lyric poems, singer and player on the Kamantsche . He later performed his services in the court of King Heracle II of Georgia, where he worked, among other things, as a diplomat. He lost his position when he fell in love with the king's daughter. He then spent the rest of his life as a traveling singer and as a bard at the court of Karim Khan in Shiraz, Iran . In 1795 he was killed by the soldiers of the Aga Mohammed Khan .

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Although he wrote several thousand songs in total, only 220 ascribed to Sayat Nova have survived. These songs have lost none of their popularity to this day. Of the traditional songs, 70 are in Armenian, 128 in Azerbaijani and 30 in Georgian. Most of his songs are still available in Azerbaijani . He was also proficient in Arabic and Persian .

Sayat Nova is officially recognized as the greatest Aschyq (Azerbaijani; Armenian: Gusan ), folk singer and songwriter of his time in the Caucasian region . The Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian wrote an opera piece called "Sayat Nova" as a tribute to him. Today, some institutions and organizations, such as the Yerevan Music School , a long-established Armenian dance company in the United States and an annual music competition program, and a crater on the planet Mercury, bear his name, to name but a few.

In 1969, directed by Sergei Parajanov, a film biography with the title "Цвет граната" ( Zwet granata , German " The color of the pomegranate ") was published.

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Web links

Commons : Sayat Nova  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean During, Zia Mirabdolbaghi, Dariush Safvat: The Art of Persian Music . Translation from French and Persian by Manuchehr Anvar, Mage Publishers, Washington DC 1991, ISBN 0-934211-22-1 , p. 35.
  2. ^ A b Charles Dowsett: Sayat'-Nova: An 18th-century Troubadour, p. 422:

    One may count 128 Azeri poems of his against 63 Armenian, 35 Georgian, and 6 Russian: moreover, there are 2 macaronic poems in Azeri and Armenian, and one in which Azeri hemistichs are employed together with hemistichs in Armenian, Georgian, and Persian ( the Poem in Four Languages), while one poem in Georgian, as we have just seen, may be a translation from the Azeri.
  3. ↑ a b Sayat-Nova . Encyclopædia Britannica.
personal data
SURNAME Nova, Sayat
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Սայաթ-Նովա (Armenian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1712
PLACE OF BIRTH Tbilisi , Georgia
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1795
Place of death Haghpat , Armenia