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Sarkis Barkhudarian

1887-1973 RU
Composer of Classical
A.k.a. Սարգիս Վասիլևիչ Բարխուդարյան

Sergei Vasilevich Barkhudarian, also called Sarkis V. Barkhudarian, and in Russian: Сергей Васильевич Бархударян. Born Sept. 7 (Aug. 26, old style) 1887 in Tbilisi, died there Oct. 29 1973. Soviet composer and teacher. People’s Artist of the Armenian SSR (1960). In 1915, Barkhudarian graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. He wrote piano pieces which played a significant role in the development of national instrumental chamber music. He also composed the ballet Narine (1938), symphonic works, romances, and music for the theater and motion pictures; he has made arrangements of folk songs. Barkhudarian taught at the Tbilisi Conservatory from 1923 to 1954 and at the Yerevan Conservatory from 1934 to 1937 (in 1941 he attained the rank of professor). He was awarded the Order of Lenin and a medal.