Gayane Chebotaryan

Gayane Chebotaryan[1] (8 November 1918, Rostov-on-Don–16 January 1998, Moscow) was an Armenian composer and musicologist. She was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory.[2] She studied composition with Christopher Kushnaryan [hy][3] and piano with Moisei Khalfin. In 1947 she took a teaching position with the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory where she was appointed professor in 1977. She was made an Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR in 1965, and published a work on the polyphonic characteristics of Aram Khachaturian in 1969.[4]

As a composer, she was praised, along with other Armenian composers, by Dmitri Shostakovich for "working hard and successfully on new compositions."[5]

Works

Selected works include:

  • Piano Concerto[3]
  • Piano Trio
  • Suite, for orchestra No. 2
  • Six Preludes
  • Polifonicheskii al'bom dlia iunoshestva. 13 fortepiannykh p'es collection, 1975

Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including:

  • Armenian Piano Trios, Audio CD (September 20, 2004) Et'Cetera, ASIN: B0006Z2LEC

References

  1. ^ "Gayane Chebotaryan (C'ebotaryan)". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
  2. ^ Dees, Pamela Youngdahl (2004). A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900.
  3. ^ a b VOKS Bulletin. U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries. 1945. p. 57. Retrieved December 10, 2024.
  4. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
  5. ^ USSR. Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA. 1964. p. 34. Retrieved December 10, 2024.


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