Artemi Ayvazyan
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Artemi (Harutyun) Ayvazyan (Armenian: Արտեմի Այվազյան, Russian: Артемий Айвазян, 1902, Baku - 1975, Yerevan) was a Soviet Armenian composer, conductor, founder of the Armenian State Jazz Orchestra. People's Artist of Armenia (1962).
Ayvazyan was born in Baku, in a musical family. Many famous musicians included Fyodor Shalyapin and Sergei Rachmaninoff visited their apartments in Merkurievskaya street. Ayvazyan finished the Tbilisi State Conservatory in 1923, studied at the studio of Alexander Spendiarian. Then he entered to the Moscow State Conservatory and finished his post-graduate research in 1935. In 1933 Ayvazyan won the First Prize of All-Soviet musical competition. In 1938 in Yerevan he founded the Armenian State Estrada (Jazz) Orchestra, one of the most popular's in the USSR and the only one that survived during the stalinist repressions of 1940's. Among his well-known songs are "Jan-Yerevan", "Karine", "Get Arax" and "Im karavan" (a melody by Ayvazyan become the unofficial anthem of the Karabakh movement in Armenia in 1988). Hi is also the author of the first Armenian operetta "The Eastern Dentist", "Taparnikos" opera and soundtracks ("Inchu e aghmkum getn?", "Mor sirtn" Armenian films, "The Snow Queen" Soviet cartoon animation). In 1939 Ayvazyan was awarded by the Renowned Master of Armenian SSR Arts title. He headed the Armenian State Estrada (Jazz) Orchestra until 1956, from 1943 to 1945 he was also the artistic head of Yerevan Musical Comedy Theater. Ayvazyan was the first professor of violoncello class at Yerevan State Conservatory.
[edit] Discography
- "Государственный эстрадный оркестр Армянской ССР" (1948)
[edit] Filmography
- 1939 - The Priest and the Goat, animation
- 1957 - Mother's Heart
- 1958 - What's All the Noise of the River About?
- 1960 - A Poem about Armenia, doc.
- 1961 - Before the Dawn
- 1967 - Alexander Myasnikyan, doc.
- 1967 - Suren Spandaryan, doc.
