Arno Babadzhanian
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Arno Arutyunovich Babadzhanian (Armenian: Առնո Բաբաջանյան; Russian: Арно Арутюнович Бабаджанян; January 22, 1921, Yerevan - November 11, 1983) was a Soviet Armenian composer and pianist, People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1956). He received the Stalin Prize of 1950 for his Heroic Ballade for piano with orchestra and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.