How did komitas die

Komitas songs
Did komitas marry
Soghomon Soghomonian was born in 1869 in Kütahya in the Ottoman Empire (in western Turkey today).

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Discography

DISC 1

CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862–1918)
12 Études (1915) á la mémoire de Frédéric Chopin

PREMIER LIVRE

1. Pour les cinq doigts · d’après Monsieur Czerny
2. Pour les tierces
3. Pour les quartes
4. Pour les sixtes
5. Pour les octaves
6. Pour les huit doigts

DEUXIÈME LIVRE

7. Pour les degrés chromatiques
8. Pour les agréments
9. Pour les notes répétées
10. Pour les sonorités opposées
11. Pour les arpèges composés
12. Pour les accords

KOMITAS VARDAPET (1869–1935) Armenian Dances (1916)

13. Manushaki of Vagharshapat
14. Yerangi of Yerevan
15. Unabi of Shushi
16. Marali of Shushi
17. Shushiki of Vagharshapat
18. Het u Aradj of Karin
19. Shoror of Karin

Kirill Gerstein, piano

DISC 2

CLAUDE DEBUSSY Chansons de Bilitis (1897-98)
Text: Pierre Louÿs

20. La Flûte de Pan
21. La Chevelure
22. Le Tombeau des naïades

Ruzan Mantashyan, soprano
Kirill Gerstein, piano

6 Épigraphes antiques
pour piano á quatre mains (1914–15)

23. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d’été
24. Pour un tombeau sans nom
25. Pour que la nuit soit pro

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The music [Komitas Seven Armenian Dances] has an artless simplicity, as one might expect, but in Gerstein’s finely hewn performances there were clear suggestions of deeper emotions at work. The sheer care with which he performed these pieces was particularly noteworthy, giving the music space to breathe, and, indeed, to resonate…Gerstein’s Debussy performances were often luminous, but just as importantly, his sound adjusted to the mood of each miniature beautifully…A powerful performance. – Seen and Heard International, October 5, 2021

Inspired by the music of Komitas, pioneer of ethnomusicology and revered as the founder of the Armenian national school of music, Kirill Gerstein’s most recent initiative epitomizes his approach to music-making. Scheduled for release in the weeks between the anniversary of Debussy’s death and Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, Music in Time of War is a double album that places the music of Komitas alongside that of Claude Debussy, a seminal composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who held a deep admiration of Komitas’s music. Both

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Gomidas Keumurdjian

Armenian priest, martyr and saint

Gomidas Keumurdjian (Armenian: Կոմիտաս Քէօմիւրճեան) (c. 1656- 5 November 1707), known as Cosma de Carbognano, was a priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and later a convert to the Armenian Catholic Church. He is regarded by the Catholic Church as a martyr and is venerated as a Blessed.

Biography

Gomidas Keumurdjian was born in Constantinople, the son of an Armenian priest. He studied under a learned Vardapet and, before being ordained a Deacon, was married at about the age of twenty and eventually fathered seven children.^[1] Like his father, he too became a parish priest of the Armenian Apostolic Church and was stationed at the Church of St. George in Galata. His preaching attracted large audiences of not only Armenians, but also Ottoman Greeks and so many Muslims that Ter Gomidas had to regularly preach sermons in the Turkish language.^[2] He was also an author of Christian poetry and composed a verse paraphrase of the Acts of the Apostles.^[3]

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