Gayane Chebotaryan (8 November 1918,

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16 January 1998,

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) was an

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composer and musicologist. She was born in

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, and graduated from the

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

. She studied composition with K'usnaryan and piano with Moisei Khalfin. In 1947 she took a teaching position with the

Yerevan Komitas 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 college ...

where she was appointed professor in 1977. She was made an Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR in 1965, and published a work on the polyphonic characteristics of

Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; rus, Арам Ильич Хачатурян, , ɐˈram ɨˈlʲjitɕ xətɕɪtʊˈrʲan, Ru-Aram Ilyich Khachaturian.ogg; hy, Արամ Խաչատրյան, ''Aram Xačʿatryan''; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet and Armenian ...

in 1969.

Works

Selected works include: *''Piano Trio'' *''Suite'', for orchestra No. 2 *''Six Preludes'' *''Polifonicheskii al'bom dlia iunoshestva. 13 fortepiannykh p'es'' collection, 1975 Her work has been recorded and issued on CD, including: *''Armenian Piano Trios'', Audio CD (September 20, 2004) Et'Cetera, ASIN: B0006Z2LEC

References

External links

Gayane Chebotaryan - Piano Trio at YoutubeGayane Chebotaryan - Piano prelude no. 3 on Youtube
1918 births 1998 deaths Women classical composers Soviet Armenians Soviet composers Musicians from Rostov-on-Don Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni Academic staff of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan 20th-century women composers {{Armenia-composer-stub