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research papers that earned him his place among the pioneers of ethnomusicology." Komitas spent summers in
Armenian countryside, developing a unique relationship with villagers. He thus took the scholarly task of transcribing and preserving rural Armenian songs. In the fall of 1903 after three years of collection and transcription, Komitas published a collection of 50 folks songs titled "One Thousand and One Songs" (Հազար ու մի խաղ). Lyricist
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590:"Seeking to bring appreciation of Armenian music to a wider audience", Komitas moved to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the Ottoman imperial capital in 1910. "There he trained a group of students in Armenian melody and formed a choir that toured Armenian communities and gave performances of the folk compositions that Komitas had arranged for four-part choir." He founded the
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and was sixteen at the time of his birth. People who knew her described her as melancholic, while his father was a cheerful person; but both were interested in music. She died in March 1870, just six months after giving birth to him. Her death left deep scars on him, whose earliest poems were devoted
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in Berlin. He thereafter "used his
Western training to build a national tradition". 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 interest in other
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The more we moved away from civilization, the more agitated were our souls and the more our minds were racked with fear. We thought we saw bandits behind every boulder; the hammocks or cradles hanging from every tree seemed like gallows ropes. The expert on
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to continue his education. He possibly stayed with his maternal grandparents who lived in the city. He was sent back to Kütahya four months later, following the death of his father who had become an alcoholic. Although
Soghomon was adopted by his paternal uncle Harutyun, his "familiar and social
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On 6 July 2008, on the occasion of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebration, a bronze bust of
Komitas was unveiled near the Quebec National Assembly (provincial legislature, Auteuil street) in recognition of his great input to music in general and to Armenian popular and liturgical music in
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in April 1915 by the
Ottoman government. He was soon released under unclear circumstances and, having witnessed indiscriminate cruelty and relentless massacres of other Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, Komitas experienced a mental breakdown and developed a severe case of
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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. Collection of Works of the Composer Komitas Vardapet is included to UNESCO
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Gevorg IV, who was disappointed with his lack of knowledge of
Armenian, but was so impressed with his singing talent that he often asked Komitas to sing for visitors. After an unfortunate childhood, Komitas found "emotional and intellectual stability" in the seminary.
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magazine (the Holy See's official newspaper) published his "National Anthem" (Ազգային Օրհներգ, lyrics by seminary student A. Tashjian) for polyphonic choirs. He finished the seminary in 1893, became a music teacher and was appointed the choirmaster of the
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in early June 1896 without having been accepted by any university. A group of Armenian friends helped him to find an apartment. He initially took private lessons with Richard Schmidt for a few months. Afterwards, he was accepted into the prestigious
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structure had collapsed." A childhood friend described him as "virtually homeless." He was completely deprived of paternal care and was "placed in circumstances that made him vulnerable to the mental illness he suffered later in life".
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in the Best Vocal Recording category. A major North American tour by Ms. Bayrakdarian in October 2008 featured the music of Komitas, with concerts in Toronto, San Francisco, Orange County, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Boston and New York's
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and his students. He gradually discovered a great passion for music and started writing down songs sung by Armenian villagers near Etchmiadzin, who affectionately called him "Notaji Vardapet", meaning "the note-taking priest".
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His life took a radical turn in the fall of 1881. In September, the twelve-year-old Soghomon was taken to Etchmiadzin by Kevork Vartabed Tertsagyan, the local Armenian bishop, who was asked by the
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particular. Previously, a granite and bronze statue of Komitas was erected in Detroit in 1981 in honor of the great composer and as a reminder of the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide.
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offers details of his deportation, during which Komitas suffered tremendously and was afflicted with traumatic neurosis. In one passage Balakian recounts how:
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due to restrictions by the Ottoman government. Soghomon was their only child. He was baptized three days after his birth. His mother was originally from
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was dedicated to victims of all genocides and sponsored by the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (a division of the
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In the autumn of 1916, he was taken to a hospital in Constantinople, Hôpital de la paix, and then moved to Paris in 1919, where he died in a
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to her. Thereafter, according to different sources, either his father's sister-in-law or his paternal grandmother, Mariam, looked after him.
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in Western Armenian. In the early 1900s, and as late as 1908, he signed his name as Soghomon Gevorgian (Kevorkian or Keworkian), after the
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officially began, he was arrested and put on a train the next day together with 180 other Armenian notables and sent to the city of
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helped him to compile the folk pieces. The same collection was reprinted in 1904, while in 1905 a further 50 songs were published.
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label in 2010 and remain the definitive interpretation of these compositions. Among the other performers of his music are
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since 1912), made up of tens of musicians. With the aim to produce professional musicians, he taught musicology to
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in northern Central Anatolia, at a distance of some 480 kilometres (300 mi). The Turkish nationalist poet
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Representative Secular Choral Works of Gomidas: An Analytical Study and Evaluation of His Musical Style
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that otherwise would have disappeared because of the genocide. His works have been published in
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Badarak was first printed in 1933 in Paris and first recorded onto a digital media in 1988 in
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1883:"Turkey's Kurdish opera singer inspires Kurds by singing in native tongue"
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2361:"The Contributions of Armenian Composers to the Clarinet Repertoire"
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Essays and Articles, The musicological treatises of Komitas Vardapet
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Archaeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon
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Armenian Music: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Discography
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Archeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon
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Archeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon
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cultures and in 1903 published the first-ever collection of
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Gomidas Vartabed: His Life and Importance to Armenian Music
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is named after Komitas. There also exists a world-renowned
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intervened with the government, and by special orders from
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province at the turn of the century. His family only spoke
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1909:"The Voice of Komitas Vardapet – Komitas | AllMusic"
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and Aris Sevag. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, p. 66.
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Komitas ev hay Zhoghovoordi Erazhshtakan Zharanguty'yun
1800:"Bayrakdarian's 'Gomidas Songs' Nominated for Grammy,"
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Komitas and the Musical Legacy of the Armenian Nation
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The complete piano works of Komitas are recorded by
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Komitas and the Musical Legacy of Armenian Notation
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2021:to Compete for International Feature Film Oscar"
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505:In October 1895, Komitas left Etchmiadzin for
234:Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to
2257:McCollum, Jonathan; Nercessian, Andy (2004).
1972:Hieroglyphs of Armenia: Films by Don Askarian
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2330:"Songs Lifted in Praise of an Armenian Hero"
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2072:[Komitas's Last Visit to Armenia].
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2053:(1979). "Կոմիտաս" [Komitas]. In
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25:Armenian composer and religious figure
2318:Komitas Vardapet: Life and Activities
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737:in a thoroughly annotated edition by
606:Deportation and final years (1915–35)
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2545:Witnesses of the Armenian genocide
2451:Short movie about Komitas Vartabed
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2141:Soulahian Kuyumjian, Rita (2001).
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1033:Kuyumjian, Rita Soulahian (2001).
956:Komitas – Complete Works for Piano
881:Yerevan State Musical Conservatory
754:string quartet named after Komitas
750:Yerevan State Musical Conservatory
219:, composer, arranger, singer, and
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2231:Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
2203:Church, Michael (21 April 2011).
2015:McNary, Dave (15 December 2020).
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460:His earliest major influence was
225:Armenian national school of music
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946:Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra
586:Komitas's "Gusan" choir in 1910
565:Main period of work (1899–1910)
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1014:Komitas Vardapet – Six Dances
924:The Voice of Komitas Vardapet
490:Tiflis and Berlin (1895–1899)
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2389:Komitas Vardapet/Collections
2289:Analysis of works of Komitas
2225:Karakashian, Meline (2011).
2114:University of Illinois Press
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2078:(in Armenian) (4). Yerevan:
2060:Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
1332:Armenian Academy of Sciences
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543:Frederick William University
499:Frederick William University
321:Hüdavendigâr (Bursa) Vilayet
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248:Frederick William University
135:Frederick William University
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2575:20th-century male musicians
2570:19th-century male musicians
2530:Armenian ethnomusicologists
2312:Terlemezian, Ruben (1924).
2118:Society for Ethnomusicology
1444:Soulahian Kuyumjian, Rita.
1201:. Virtual Museum of Komitas
1142:Komitas (transliterated as
1055:Tahmizian, Nikoġos Kirakosi
457:, Armenia's mother church.
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2350:Vagramian, Violet (1973).
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1287:The Monthly Musical Record
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2400:, Armenian National Music
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2198:. University of Michigan.
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1632:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1620:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1608:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1561:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1537:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1525:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1513:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1490:Essays on Armenian music
1433:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1320:Editorial Board (1969).
1308:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1186:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1070:
1006:and Lusine Khachatryan.
896:The writers' and poets'
852:Modern performers, like
578:Constantinople (1910–15)
43:
18:Komitas (disambiguation)
2082:: 61–69. Archived from
1815:"Songs of the homeland"
1717:"Kastamonu Vilâyeti'ne"
1261:Encyclopædia Britannica
406:Holy See of Etchmiadzin
56:Komitas in 1901 or 1902
2354:. University of Miami.
2068:Mooradian, M. (1969).
1378:University of Maryland
1138:He is widely known as
1113:Սողոմոն Սողոմոնեան in
872:The central square of
842:
783:, was released on the
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610:On 24 April 1915, the
587:
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442:Hovhannes Hovhannisyan
430:Hampartsoum Limondjian
207:; 8 October [
195:and commonly known as
2055:Hambardzumyan, Viktor
1862:Rewşan | Destmala Min
1334:: 3–6. Archived from
1115:classical orthography
840:
766:
711:Statue of Komitas in
710:
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688:Statue of Komitas in
687:
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585:
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455:Etchmiadzin Cathedral
380:Etchmiadzin Cathedral
364:Etchmiadzin (1881–95)
291:psychiatric hospitals
278:arrested and deported
2261:. Lanham, Maryland:
1977:7 March 2015 at the
1968:Harvard Film Archive
1581:Adalian, Rouben Paul
1221:Lang, David Marshall
1158:(Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ),
1150:). His church rank,
1119:reformed orthography
928:Armenak Shahmuradyan
918:The Music of Komitas
624:Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
525:agreed to pay 1,800
462:Kristapor Kara-Murza
313:Soghomon Soghomonian
189:Soghomon Soghomonian
69:8 October [
66:Soghomon Soghomonian
16:For other uses, see
2510:People from Kütahya
2462:, performed by the
2328:(17 October 2008).
2297:Tahmizian, Nikoghos
2086:on 29 December 2014
1841:. 27 September 2019
1293:. London: Augener:
1199:"Etchmiadzin. 1902"
938:Isabel Bayrakdarian
777:Isabel Bayrakdarian
547:Heinrich Bellermann
536:Komitas arrived in
523:Alexander Mantashev
307:Childhood (1869–81)
296:Memory of the World
2550:Armenian academics
2520:Romantic composers
2515:Armenian composers
2398:"Komitas Vardapet"
2335:The New York Times
2281:Melikian, Spiridon
1821:on 7 January 2016.
1748:Balakian, Grigoris
1729:on 2 November 2006
1694:, pp. 44, 46.
1412:The New York Times
1405:(5 October 1987).
1164:Gevorgian Seminary
1127:Solomon Solomonian
1079:, 1988, director:
1004:Sergey Khachatryan
843:
769:
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699:Komitas on a 1969
693:
672:and buried in the
662:psychiatric clinic
588:
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410:Gevorgian Seminary
395:Gevorgian Seminary
253:Kurdish folk songs
240:Gevorgian Seminary
131:Gevorgian Seminary
2147:Gomidas Institute
2100:Poladian, Sirvart
1889:. 13 October 2020
1802:Loussapatz Weekly
1752:Armenian Golgotha
1682:, pp. 43–44.
1658:, pp. 39–40.
1646:, pp. 33–34.
1610:, pp. 29–30.
1594:978-0-8108-7450-3
1539:, pp. 21–24.
1527:, pp. 15–16.
1403:Crutchfield, Will
1310:, pp. 45–46.
1229:Allen & Unwin
978:Vardan Mamikonian
970:Hommage à Komitas
847:Gurdjief Ensemble
648:Armenian Golgotha
643:Grigoris Balakian
616:Armenian genocide
600:Barsegh Kanachyan
438:Khachatur Abovian
311:Komitas was born
274:Armenian genocide
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891:Arabkir District
806:Zoryan Institute
802:Remembrance Tour
635:Henry Morgenthau
551:Max Friedlaender
531:Mkrtich Khrimian
446:Avetik Isahakyan
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