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https://books.google.am/books?id=eiolDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA115 Komitas 305, 318 [check others]
- Levon Hakobian, Music of the Soviet Era: 1917-1991, [PDF]
https://escs.am/am/news/20370 Կոմիտաս Վարդապետի ստեղծագործությունները գրանցվել են ՅՈՒՆԵՍԿՕ-ի Աշխարհի հիշողության միջազգային ռեգիստրում
The collection of works of Komitas registered in the UNESCO International Register of Memory of the World https://armenpress.am/eng/news/1111253.html
https://www.unesco.org/en/memory-world/register2023 List of the 64 new items of documentary heritage inscribed on the Memory of the World International Register in 2023. Collection of Works of the Composer Komitas Vardapet Submitter: Armenia
Komitas (1869-1935) is a musicologist and composer who was one of the pioneers in the world to invent folkmusic as phenomenon. His activity outlined new paths in collecting and analyzing traditional music and involving them in music composition. In this regard, he had a significant impact on the activity of folk music collectors of the 20th century. Komitas created a new style of composition, which synthesized authentic folk and Christian church music with Western means of composition. His work has been a guide for many composers and his music is performed by famous world musicians independent of nationality or geographic location. The significance of this collection is therefore evident in not just the Armenian, but the regional, Middle Eastern, and universal music culture. The collection includes the survived original copies and manuscripts of (a) folk music collections, (b) compositional works, and (c) scientific research on music.
https://variety.com/2021/film/reviews/songs-of-solomon-review-1234891581/ ‘Songs of Solomon’ Review: A Clumsy Rendering of Key Chapter of Armenian History
Impending Death as a Catalyst in Reconnection
Կոմիտասը աքսորում. 1915 թվական (ժամանակագրություն)
Կոմիտաս Վարդապետի թուրքերեն ստեղծագործություններ
Հայ երգի Մաշտոցն ու նրա ճեմարանական տարիները
Asatryan, Anna (2019). "Komitas and the Ways of Development of Armenian Music (to the 150th anniversary of Komitas)". Journal of Armenian Studies (2): 149. Komitas saved the Armenian peasant song from oblivion. His efforts in this field are comparable with the deed of Mesrop Mashtots.
http://www.musicologytoday.ro/BackIssues/Nr.24/studies2.php
http://www.musicologytoday.ro/BackIssues/Nr.24/studies3.php
Komitas | |
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Born | Soghomon Soghomonian 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1869 |
Died | 22 October 1935(1935-10-22) (aged 66) |
Resting place | Komitas Pantheon, Yerevan, Armenia |
Nationality | Armenian |
Education | Gevorgian Seminary Frederick William University |
Occupation(s) | Musicologist, composer, choirmaster |
Years active | 1891–1915 |
Soghomon Soghomonian,[upper-alpha 1] ordained and commonly known as Komitas,[upper-alpha 2] (Armenian: Կոմիտաս; 26 September 1869 – 22 October 1935) was an Armenian priest, musicologist and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of Armenian national school of music.[5][8] He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology.[9][10]
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 1895, he studied music at the Frederick William University in Berlin. He thereafter "used his Western training to build a national tradition".[11] He collected and transcribed over 3,000 pieces of Armenian folk music, more than half of which were subsequently lost and only around 1,200 are now extant. Besides Armenian folk songs, he also showed interested in other cultures and in 1904 published the first-ever collection of Kurdish folk songs. His choir presented Armenian music in many European cities, earning the praise of Claude Debussy, among others. Komitas settled in Constantinople in 1910 to escape mistreatment by ultra-conservative clergymen at Etchmiadzin and to introduce Armenian folk music to wider audiences. He was widely embraced by Armenian communities, while Arshag Chobanian called him the "savior of Armenian music".[12]
During the Armenian Genocide—along with hundreds of other Armenian intellectuals—Komitas was arrested and deported to a prison camp in April 1915 by the Ottoman government. He was soon released under unclear circumstances and experienced a mental breakdown and developed a severe case of what has been retrospectively diagnosed as Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The widespread hostile environment in Constantinople and reports of mass-scale Armenian death marches and massacres that reached him further worsened his fragile mental state. He was first placed in a Turkish military-operated hospital until 1919 and then transferred to psychiatric hospitals in Paris, where he spent the last years of his life in agony. Komitas is widely seen as a martyr of the genocide and has been depicted as one of the main symbols of the Armenian Genocide in art.