Gayane Chebotaryan
Armenian composer and musicologist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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[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
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