Mikael Tariverdiev
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Mikael Tariverdiev (Russian: Микаэл Таривердиев; August 15, 1931 — July 25, 1996) was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of Soviet Cinematographers' Union since its inception.
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[edit] Biography
He was born in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR to Armenian parents, but lived and worked in Russia. He graduated from Moscow Gnesine Institute (Aram Khachaturian's class).
He is an author of over 100 romances and 2 operas. But most of all he is known for his music in many popular Soviet movies (more than 130 films included "Seventeen Moments of Spring" and "Fate's Irony").
Mikael Tariverdiev was a recipient of multiple awards, including the USSR State Prize (1977) and the prize of the American Music Academy (1975). He was made People's Artist of Russia in 1986.
The Best Music prize at the largest Russian national film festival Kinotaur is named after Tariverdiev. After the Tariverdiev's death a group of admirers of his music organized the Mikael Tariverdiev Charity Fund and Tariverdiev Annual International Organ Competition.
[edit] Discography
- Night pastimes,
- Quo vadis?,
- Remembering Venice,
- Seventeen moments of spring,
- Instrumentalnie kinokhiti,
- Composer's interpretation of the Jewish songs,
- Prescience of love, 20 century madrigals.
[edit] Books
- I Am Simply Living, autobiography, Moscow, Zebra, 2007
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