Tony, Grove has the following on the latter:lutoslawski wrote:Malc,
Can you help me provide some information on the following composers?
D.Khakhanov
Eduard Khagagortian
Thank you very much,
Tony
Khagagortian, Eduard (Aramovich)
(b Tbilisi, 15 July 1930; d Moscow, 3 Jan 1983). Armenian composer. He learnt the violin in Tbilisi music schools before he studied composition with Egiazarian at the Yerevan Conservatory (graduating in 1954) and then with Aram Khachaturian at the Moscow Conservatory (graduating in 1964). He was later Khachaturian’s assistant at the conservatory and the Gnesin Institute. He became a board member of the Composers’ Union in 1964 and was deputy to the chairman of the board of the Moscow branch in 1970. In 1973 he became deputy editor of the publishers Sovetskiy kompozitor and was nominated Honoured Representative of the Arts of the RSFSR in 1979. He is considered to have made a signifcant contribution to the musical culture of the former USSR. He is a composer with an outstanding lyrical and dramatic gift, and this, coupled with his expertise in the area of folk music (of which he made several recordings) defined his compositional style. His ability to think on the broadest scale and his mastery of orchestral colour attracted him to the writing of symphonic works and music for the theatre and for film.
WORKS
(selective list)
Str Qt, 1949; Blbul yev vard [The Nightingale and the Rose] (ballet, after A. Isahakyan), Yerevan, 1954; Sona (ballet, 3, A. Gharibyan), Yerevan, 1956; Shun u katun [The Cat and the Dog] (children’s comic op, 2, after H. Tumanyan), Yerevan, 1957; Pf Qnt, 1960; Sym. no.1, 1962; Sym. no.2, str orch, 1965; Cl Conc., 1966; Sym. no.3, solo org, 1969; Hp Conc., 1970; Sym. no.4, 1973; Shapka s ushami [The Cap with Earflaps] (children’s comic op, 3, N. Sats and N. Polyakov, after Tumanyan), Moscow, 1976; Str Qt, 1976; Sonata, fl, 1979; Sonata, vc, 1979; Sym. no.5, chbr chorus, orch incl. Armenian folk insts, 1980; Karinė (musical comedy), Moscow, 1981; Vn Conc., 1983; over 100 film scores; pf cycles
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ye. Dolinskaya: ‘Sochineniye redkogo zhanra’ [A composition of a rare genre], SovM (1973), no.8, pp.17–19
Ye. Orlova and V. Likht: ‘Mir chudom predstayot peredo mnoy: zametki o muzïke E. Khagagortyan’ [The world appears before me as a miracle: notes on the music of Khagagortian], SovM (1982), no.2, pp.21–6
E. Khagagortian: Stat'i, vospominaniya [Articles and reminiscences], ed. Ye. Dolinskaya (Moscow, 1987)
YELENA DOLINSKAYA
