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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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601:"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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Etchmiadzin in September 1899, Komitas resumed teaching and composing. He assembled and trained a large polyphonic choir based on his acquired knowledge. Until 1906, he directed the Gevorgian Seminary choir. It was in this period when he completed "most of the theoretical and
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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
300:(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
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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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Between 1881 and 1910, Komitas was mainly based in Etchmiadzin, although he did spend a significant time in Europe. During his first year at the seminary, Komitas learned the Armenian music notation (
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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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Komitas Vardapet, considered a pioneer in ethnomusicology, turned his attention to the anthropological, sociological, and historical aspects of comparative musicology.
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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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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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In 1880, four years after he finished primary school in Kütahya, Soghomon was sent by his father to
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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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debuted in New York City performing Komitas's folk songs on traditional instruments.
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to find an orphan boy with good singing voice to be enrolled in the prestigious
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Komitas created the basis for a distinctive national musical style in Armenia.
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1894:"Turkey's Kurdish opera singer inspires Kurds by singing in native tongue"
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26 September] 1869 – 22 October 1935), was an
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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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1920:"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
1811:"Bayrakdarian's 'Gomidas Songs' Nominated for Grammy,"
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Komitas and the Musical Legacy of the Armenian Nation
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Komitasẹ ev hay žoġovowrdi eražštakan žaṙangowt'iwnẹ
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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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2032:to Compete for International Feature Film Oscar"
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245:Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to
2268:McCollum, Jonathan; Nercessian, Andy (2004).
1983:Hieroglyphs of Armenia: Films by Don Askarian
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2341:"Songs Lifted in Praise of an Armenian Hero"
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2083:[Komitas's Last Visit to Armenia].
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2064:(1979). "Կոմիտաս" [Komitas]. In
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36:Armenian composer and religious figure
2329:Komitas Vardapet: Life and Activities
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617:Deportation and final years (1915–35)
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2462:Short movie about Komitas Vartabed
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2152:Soulahian Kuyumjian, Rita (2001).
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1044:Kuyumjian, Rita Soulahian (2001).
967:Komitas – Complete Works for Piano
892:Yerevan State Musical Conservatory
765:string quartet named after Komitas
761:Yerevan State Musical Conservatory
230:, composer, arranger, singer, and
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2242:Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia
2214:Church, Michael (21 April 2011).
2026:McNary, Dave (15 December 2020).
570:Internationalen Musikgesellschaft
471:His earliest major influence was
236:Armenian national school of music
1596:Historical Dictionary of Armenia
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597:Komitas's "Gusan" choir in 1910
576:Main period of work (1899–1910)
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1025:Komitas Vardapet – Six Dances
935:The Voice of Komitas Vardapet
501:Tiflis and Berlin (1895–1899)
2536:Composers of Christian music
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2400:Komitas Vardapet/Collections
2300:Analysis of works of Komitas
2236:Karakashian, Meline (2011).
2125:University of Illinois Press
2091:Armenian Academy of Sciences
2089:(in Armenian) (4). Yerevan:
2071:Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
1343:Armenian Academy of Sciences
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554:Frederick William University
510:Frederick William University
332:Hüdavendigâr (Bursa) Vilayet
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259:Frederick William University
146:Frederick William University
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2586:20th-century male musicians
2581:19th-century male musicians
2541:Armenian ethnomusicologists
2323:Terlemezian, Ruben (1924).
2129:Society for Ethnomusicology
1455:Soulahian Kuyumjian, Rita.
1212:. Virtual Museum of Komitas
1153:Komitas (transliterated as
1066:Tahmizian, Nikoġos Kirakosi
468:, Armenia's mother church.
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2361:Vagramian, Violet (1973).
2259:Komitas, Vardapet (1998).
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1298:The Monthly Musical Record
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2576:Gevorgian Seminary alumni
2481:Շողեր ջան ("Shogher jan")
2411:, Armenian National Music
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1655:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
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1631:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1619:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1572:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1548:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1536:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1524:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1501:Essays on Armenian music
1444:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1331:Editorial Board (1969).
1319:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1197:Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001
1081:
1017:and Lusine Khachatryan.
907:The writers' and poets'
863:Modern performers, like
589:Constantinople (1910–15)
54:
29:Komitas (disambiguation)
2093:: 61–69. Archived from
1826:"Songs of the homeland"
1728:"Kastamonu Vilâyeti'ne"
1272:Encyclopædia Britannica
417:Holy See of Etchmiadzin
67:Komitas in 1901 or 1902
2365:. University of Miami.
2079:Mooradian, M. (1969).
1389:University of Maryland
1149:He is widely known as
1124:Սողոմոն Սողոմոնեան in
883:The central square of
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441:Hampartsoum Limondjian
218:; 8 October [
206:and commonly known as
2066:Hambardzumyan, Viktor
1873:Rewşan | Destmala Min
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1126:classical orthography
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722:Statue of Komitas in
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466:Etchmiadzin Cathedral
391:Etchmiadzin Cathedral
375:Etchmiadzin (1881–95)
302:psychiatric hospitals
289:arrested and deported
2272:. Lanham, Maryland:
1988:7 March 2015 at the
1979:Harvard Film Archive
1592:Adalian, Rouben Paul
1232:Lang, David Marshall
1169:(Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ),
1161:). His church rank,
1130:reformed orthography
939:Armenak Shahmuradyan
929:The Music of Komitas
635:Mehmet Emin Yurdakul
536:agreed to pay 1,800
473:Kristapor Kara-Murza
324:Soghomon Soghomonian
200:Soghomon Soghomonian
80:8 October [
77:Soghomon Soghomonian
27:For other uses, see
2521:People from Kütahya
2473:, performed by the
2339:(17 October 2008).
2308:Tahmizian, Nikoghos
2097:on 29 December 2014
1852:. 27 September 2019
1304:. London: Augener:
1210:"Etchmiadzin. 1902"
949:Isabel Bayrakdarian
788:Isabel Bayrakdarian
558:Heinrich Bellermann
547:Komitas arrived in
534:Alexander Mantashev
318:Childhood (1869–81)
307:Memory of the World
2561:Armenian academics
2531:Romantic composers
2526:Armenian composers
2409:"Komitas Vardapet"
2346:The New York Times
2292:Melikian, Spiridon
1832:on 7 January 2016.
1759:Balakian, Grigoris
1740:on 2 November 2006
1705:, pp. 44, 46.
1423:The New York Times
1416:(5 October 1987).
1175:Gevorgian Seminary
1138:Solomon Solomonian
1090:, 1988, director:
1015:Sergey Khachatryan
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673:psychiatric clinic
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421:Gevorgian Seminary
406:Gevorgian Seminary
264:Kurdish folk songs
251:Gevorgian Seminary
142:Gevorgian Seminary
2158:Gomidas Institute
2111:Poladian, Sirvart
1900:. 13 October 2020
1813:Loussapatz Weekly
1763:Armenian Golgotha
1693:, pp. 43–44.
1669:, pp. 39–40.
1657:, pp. 33–34.
1621:, pp. 29–30.
1605:978-0-8108-7450-3
1550:, pp. 21–24.
1538:, pp. 15–16.
1414:Crutchfield, Will
1321:, pp. 45–46.
1240:Allen & Unwin
989:Vardan Mamikonian
981:Hommage à Komitas
858:Gurdjief Ensemble
659:Armenian Golgotha
654:Grigoris Balakian
627:Armenian genocide
611:Barsegh Kanachyan
449:Khachatur Abovian
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285:Armenian genocide
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