ARAM ILIĆ KHACHATURIAN
(1903-1978)
Composer Aram Khachaturian arman is a former Union composer, conductor, music and art figure.
Hero of Socialist Labor (1973), former union people’s artist (1954), Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1959), four Stalin prizes (1941, 1943, 1946, 1950), former Union State Prize (1971) and former Union Armenian State Prize.
The author of three ballets, three symphonies, six concertos, vocal, choral, instrumental and programmatic music, music for film and theater production, as well as musical works such as the Armenian state anthem.
A.Khachaturian music covered the monodias of Armenians, the mugams of Azerbaijanis, as well as the art of folk song performers of Azerbaijani, Georgian and other Caucasian peoples.
In his first symphony, a diploma work (1935), written on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the establishment of power in Armenia.Khachaturian was able to find a way of intonation synthesis to renew his individual style and symphonism.
A.The special taste in Khachaturian music, the combination of folk coloritis, the enthusiasm and excitement of the musical language, the festive mood of images, the artistry of folk singers of the concert genre traditions marked the uniqueness of the concert, expanded its repertoire. The concert material is distinguished by excellent thematic brightness. It contains a little boldness, a little Tarky world signs, a song reminiscent of a little artistry, a little myth, a love story, a little waving dance rhythms. At the concert, skillfulness and emotion, clarity, artistic appearances and humanity are combined to achieve perfection in integrity.
Khachaturian’s Ballet “Spartak”. A.Khachaturian’s “Spartacus” became the high pinnacle of historical ballet (1953). The ballet “Spartak” is a work with a bright musical dramaturgy, widely developed artistic images, clearly romantic exciting intonational content, a unique musical language. The ballet’s staging was first performed in 1955 at the Leningrad Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after Kirov (Ballet Master L.V.Jacobson, conductor P.E.Feldt, artist V.Khodasevich) and in 1958 at the Grand Theatre (baletmeister I.Moiseyev, conductor Y.Fayer, artist A.Konstantinovsky) had been done. Since that time, Ballet has not left the stages of World theaters. In 1976, Y.It was screened based on Grigorovich’s performance.
Until the last days of his life, A.Khachaturian taught composition at the Gnesin Institute in Kham at the Moscow State conservatories. Among them: the composers Andrei Eshpay, Mikael Tariverdiev, Alexei Ribnikov are his students.
A.Khachaturian died on may 1, 1978.