Garo Hovannesi Zakarian (

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: Կարո Հովհաննեսի Զաքարյան; 15 December 1895, Van, Ottoman Empire - 11 May 1967,

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Armenian SSR The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic,; russian: Армянская Советская Социалистическая Республика, translit=Armyanskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika) also commonly referred to as Soviet A ...

), was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He was named a People's Artist of Armenia in 1960.

Biography

Zakarian studied music theory at the

St. Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

from 1916 to 1918. He was choirmaster and a teacher at the House of Armenian Arts in

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from 1921 to 1929, during which time he also graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory in 1924. Zakarian moved to

in 1929, working as a lecturer at

Yerevan State Conservatory Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan ( hy, Երևանի Կոմիտասի անվան պետական կոնսերվատորիա), also known as Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (YKSC) or Yerevan State Conservatory (YSC), is a state-owned colleg ...

in choral conducting. From 1938 to 1953 he was the head of the Yerevan Radio Chorus, and from 1949 a member of the

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. Zakaryan was close to the musical language and origins of Armenian folk songs, and is known for his choral arrangements of Armenian folk songs. He composed the "Pioneer" Ballet (1937), "Coral" opera (1939, staged 1941) and operas "A." (1954 according to Khachatur Abovyan).

References

Garo Zakarian
in ''Театральная энциклопедия'', Том 2, p. 698
Կարո Զաքարյան
Music of Armenia {{DEFAULTSORT:Zakarian, Garo Armenian composers Composers from the Ottoman Empire Turkish composers Armenians from the Ottoman Empire 1895 births 1967 deaths People from Van, Turkey Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the Russian Empire