YEREVAN, JUNE 6, ARMENPRESS: The 99-th birth anniversary of most famous Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian was marked today in Yerevan by a set of events.
Aram Khachaturian was born near Tiflis (Tbilisi, Georgia) on 6 June 1903 and died in Moscow on 1 May 1978. Educated at the Gnesin School and the Moscow Conservatory, Khachaturian emerged along with Prokofiev and Shostakovich as one of the most popular and successful composers of the Soviet period.
His unique musical idiom was indelibly marked by his Armenian heritage; his scores are noted for their sensuous, singing melodic writing, colorful orchestration, and elemental rhythmic drive.
Known in the West chiefly as the composer of instrumental concerti and the vivid scores for the ballets Gayaneh and Spartacus (the former including the brilliant ‘Sabre Dance’), his output also encompassed symphonies and other works for orchestra, film and theater music, works for band, chamber music, and a large number of patriotic and popular songs.
Khachaturian’s disciples and all who loves his music paid a visit today to his tombstone at a Yerevan pantheon (the composer spent his entire life outside of Armenia but his last will was to be buried in Armenia). Following it a concert was held at his Museum in the capital.
The UNESCO has declared next year, which will mark his 100-th birthday, as the year of Aram Khachaturian.
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