Aram Khachaturian
Soviet Armenian composer (1903–1978)
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You've heard his music whether you know his name or not: the "Sabre Dance" — that manic, galloping sprint from his ballet Gayane — has drilled into global pop culture for eight decades. Khachaturian wrote it as one Soviet Armenian composer threading folk melodies into symphonies, concertos, and film scores, but that single two-minute frenzy became bigger tha
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Born in Tbilisi in 1903, Khachaturian arrived in Moscow at eighteen with no formal music training and enrolled at the Gnessin Musical Institute anyway. His 1936 Piano Concerto announced him; his 1940 Violin Concerto and the ballets Gayane (1942) and Spartacus (1954) carried him into the Soviet establishment, where he held high posts in the Union of Soviet Composers and joined the Communist Party in 1943. In 1948 he was denounced alongside Prokofiev and Shostakovich as a "formalist" peddling "anti-people" music, then quietly restored months later. After 1950 he taught at the Moscow Conservatory…
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- Khachaturian: Violin Concerto / Shostakovich String Quartets nos. 7 & 82014
- Piano Concertos2014
- The Gayaneh Ballet2013
- Rimsky‐Korsakov: Sheherazade / Khachaturian: Gayane2012
- Two Souls2012
- Brahms / Khachaturian Violin Concertos2012
- Ballet Suites2012
- Composer - Conductor - Pianist2012
- Armenian Rhapsody2011
- Shostakovich: Symphony Nos. 1 & 11 "The Year 1905" / Khachaturian: Symphony No. 2 "The Bell"2011
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