Arno Babajanian

Arno Babajanian Armenian Առնո Բաբաջանյան Russian Арно Арутюнович Бабаджанян January 22 1921 - November 11 1983 Was A Soviet Armenian Composer And Pianist People's Artist Of The Armenian SSR 1956 And Soviet Union 1971 . He Was Awarded The State Prizes Of USSR 1951 1953 And Armenian SSR 1967 1983 . Babajanian Babadjanian Was Born In Yerevan The Capital Of Armenia. By Age 5 His Extraordinary Musical Talent Was Clearly Apparent And The Composer Aram Khachaturian Suggested That The Boy Be Given Proper Music Training. Two Years Later In 1928 At The Age Of 7 Babajanian Entered The Yerevan State Musical Conservatory. In 1938 He Continued His Studies In Moscow With Vissarion Shebalin. He Later Returned To Yerevan Where From 1950-1956 He Taught At The Conservatory. It Was During This Period 1952 That He Wrote The Piano Trio In F# Sharp Minor. It Received Immediate Acclaim And Was Regarded As A Masterpiece From The Time Of Its Premiere. Subsequently He Undertook Concert Tours Throughout The Soviet Union And Europe. In 1971 He Was Named A People’s Artist Of The Soviet Union. As A Composer Babajanian Was Active In Most Genres And Even Wrote Many Popular Songs In Collaboration With The Leading Poets Such As Yevgeny Yevtushenko And Robert Rozhdestvensky Among Others. Much Of Babajanian’s Music Is Rooted In Armenian Folk Music And Folklore. But Generally The Way In Which He Uses Uses Armenian Folk Music Is In The Virtuosic Style Of Rachmaninov And Khachaturian. His Later Works Were Influenced By Prokofiev And Bartók. read less