Krunk komitas biography
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Composer
Oct 08 - Aug 22
Komitas (Soghomon Gevorg Soghomonyan) - composer, musicologist, singer, choirmaster, pedagogue, poet, and the founder of the Armenian National School of Music, was born on 26 September in Kuthaya, Turkey However, his ancestors were from Gokhten canton of the province of Vaspurakan in Greater Armenia. In , Vicar General of Kuthaya Gevorg vardapet Derdzakyan brought orphaned Soghomon to Etchmiadzin to educate him at Gevorgian Seminary where special attention was paid to his musical education due to his beautiful voice and prominent musical abilities. While studying at the seminary, Komitas thoroughly mastered the theoretical and practical fundamentals of church music and Armenian notation. Since then he had begun collecting and studying Armenian folk songs, and making his first creative experiments.
In , after completing his studies, Soghomon served as a music teacher at the seminary. In , he was ordained hieromonk and given name Komitas in honor of the Catholicos Komitas I Aghtsetsi (VII century). In , he was ordained vardapet. In the fall of the same year, for further professional development, he studied with Makar Yekmalian in Tiflis. He then left for Berlin, where from to he studied at the private conservatory of Professor Richard Schmidt an
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Komitas
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Armenian composer and religious figure
Soghomon Soghomonian,[A]ordained and commonly known as Komitas[B] (Armenian: Կոմիտաս; 8 October[O.S. 26 September] 22 October ), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music.[4][7] He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology.[9]
Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to Etchmiadzin, Armenia's religious center, where he received education at the Gevorgian Seminary. Following his ordination as vardapet (celibate priest) in , he studied music at the Frederick William University in Berlin. He thereafter "used his Western training to build a national tradition".[10] He collected and transcribed over 3, pieces of Armenian folk music, more than half of which were subsequently lost and only around 1, are now extant. Besides Armenian folk songs, he also showed interest in other cultures and in published the first-ever collection of Kurdish folk songs titled Kurdish melodies. His choir presented Armenian music in many European cities, earning the praise of Claude D