Grigor Yeghiazaryan

Grigor Yeghiazaryan ( hy, Գրիգոր Եղիազարյան; 8 December 1908 − 4 November 1988) was a Soviet and Armenian composer. People's Artist of the USSR (1977). He was born on 8 December 1908 in Blur,

Erivan Governorate The Erivan Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire, with its centеr in Erivan (present-day Yerevan). Its area was 27,830 sq. kilometеrs, roughly corresponding to what is now most of central A ...

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

(now in Enginalan, Iğdır,

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). In 1935, Yeghiazaryan graduated from the

Moscow State Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

with

Nikolai Myaskovsky Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky or Miaskovsky or Miaskowsky (russian: Никола́й Я́ковлевич Мяско́вский; pl, Mikołaj Miąskowski, syn Jakóbowy; 20 April 18818 August 1950), was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is som ...

. From 1936 to 1938, he lectured and also was the head of the training section of the Music College in Leninakan. After 1938, he lived in Yerevan, and gave lessons in the music college and the

Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan 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 ...

. He was the head of composition classes and was appointed a professor in 1959. From 1952 to 1955, he was the chairman of the Armenian Union of Composers. From 1954 to 1960, he was the rector at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory. He was the Armenian SSR State Prize winner of 1971. He died on 4 November 1988 in

Yerevan Yerevan ( , , hy, Երևան , sometimes spelled Erevan) is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. Situated along the Hrazdan River, Yerevan is the administrative, cultural, and i ...

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Yeghiazaryan, Grigor 1908 births 1988 deaths 20th-century Armenian musicians 20th-century composers People from Erivan Governorate Academics of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan Moscow Conservatory alumni People's Artists of Armenia People's Artists of the USSR Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Armenian composers Armenian people from the Russian Empire Soviet Armenians