Alexander Zavenovich Mirzayan (russian: Александр Завенович Мирзаян) (born on July 20, 1945) is a Russian poet, composer, songwriter,

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and bard music theoretician. He was born in

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

. In 1969 he graduated from Bauman

Moscow State Technical University The Bauman Moscow State Technical University, BMSTU (russian: link=no, Московский государственный технический университет им. Н. Э. Баумана (МГТУ им. Н. Э. Баумана)), some ...

and worked as a physics engineer in the Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics. The first songs were written in 1969. From 1970 he started to participate in the Moscow KSP (Klub Samodejatel'noj Pesni, Clubs of Amateur Song) activities. Mirzayan became laureate of numerous KSP festivals at that time. In 1970–1980, Mirzayan's active civil stand and his affinity to the

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(poetry of

Daniil Kharms Daniil Ivanovich Kharms (russian: Дании́л Ива́нович Хармс; – 2 February 1942) was an early Soviet-era Russian avant-gardist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist. Early years Kharms was born as Daniil Yuvachev ...

Joseph Brodsky Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...

etc.) caused conflicts with official rule. Mirzayan writes songs both for his own poetry as well as poetry of other Russian poets Sosnora, Brodsky, Harms,

Tsvetaeva Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (russian: Марина Ивановна Цветаева, p=mɐˈrʲinə ɪˈvanəvnə tsvʲɪˈtaɪvə; 31 August 1941) was a Russian poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russia ...

, Chuhonzev and others. From the end of 1990, Mirzayan started research on the historical and philosophical aspects of the song phenomena.

External links

Alexander Mirzayan - video

Interview with Mirzayan
by

Natella Boltyanskaya Natella Savelievna Boltyanskaya (russian: link=no, Нате́лла Саве́льевна Болтя́нская (Киперма́н), born 20 May 1965, Moscow) is a Russian journalist, singer-songwriter, poet and ex-radio host on Echo of Moscow ...

Echo of Moscow Echo of Moscow (russian: links=no, Эхо Москвы, translit=Ekho Moskvy) was a 24/7 commercial Russian radio station based in Moscow. It broadcast in many Russian cities, some of the former Soviet republics (through partnerships with local ra ...

* at Hyperion, 19.02.14

References

1945 births Living people Musicians from Baku Soviet Armenians Russian people of Armenian descent Russian bards Russian male poets Soviet songwriters Soviet poets Soviet male writers 20th-century Russian male writers {{songwriter-stub