Aram Khatchatourian

Its life

The father of Aram Khatchatourian, Eguia, had left his country of origin which was the Arménie, about the years 1870. He thus moved with Tiflis (current town of Tbilissi in Georgia) there to work and build his workshop of Reliure. It is in this city that were born his/her five children. Aram was the junior. The elder one died young person. Khatchatourian grows with the airs of music which his/her mother fredonnait to him and which certain musicians of the street inspired to him.

Its studies and its first parts

The discovery of the music came to him from the boarding school where it took courses of piano. It lived there of 1912 with 1921. After having followed its courses of piano during two years, it decided to launch out in studies of trade and it continued to learn the piano in an autonomous way. When it went for the first time to the opera, eleven years, it fell in love with the music. Even if he did not think of undertaking in-depth studies in this field, his Souren brother who was married, moved in Moscow. He proposed with Aram and his Levon brother to make in the same way. In Moscow, Aram joined the university as well as the institute Gnessine, a school of mark and very good reputation. Meanwhile, he undertook courses of violoncello. In 1922, it was the year in its first concert. It launched out then in the study of biology and it began its courses in composition.

Meetings

It is during its studies that it met the woman of its life, Nina Makarova. Aram entered then to the Conservatoire of Moscow and was the pupil of Nikolaï Miaskovski, a popular type-setter of the time.

Its work

Khatchatourian had already composed in 1932, a Trio for clarinet , violin and piano, very noticed by Prokofiev which made it interpret with Paris. In 1933, it composed a Suite for the dance . It took as a starting point all kinds of dances Armenian, Azerbaijani, géorgiennes and Uzbeks and of his work, one discovered this obvious taste for the folklore. He wrote also a first symphony, to obtain his diploma of the academy and also to make honor with his country, for its fifteenth birthday. This part was made up in 1935, it had like inspiration the Western music and the Armenian folklore. It also made, in the same year, a film music. The film was entitled “Pépo”. Starting from this composition, a long career of type-setter of incidental music began. It was going to produce more than forty works for the cinema and the theater. Equipped with a melody ear some, Aram was especially gifted for the ballet, the film music or of scene. It called most of the time upon an orchestra with the sound mélodieux, sensual, postromantic even lyric.

Khatchatourian, in Soviet Union, was the first type-setter to integrate the modern music and the traditional ballet. He believed that the public was to feel the same thing as the artists who tried to express themselves. Khatchatourian became a large type-setter grace also to his Concerto for piano and orchestra which was worth international notoriety to him and marked the first stage of its career. It became one of its most famous type-setters then. It composed several other works as of its young age.

Last works

In 1961, Aram started again to write orchestral music and composed a sonata for piano. The year which followed, it continued with three concerto-rhapsodies which it wanted to renovate. In the last years of its life, Khatchatourian composed still three sonatas for violoncello, violin and viola. These last works are seldom played and, to date, were not recorded.

List summary its works

Symphonies

Symphony n° 1
Symphony n° 2
Symphony n° 3

Works for soloist and orchestra

Concerto for piano in major D flat
Concerto for violin in minor D
Concerto for violoncello as a semi minor, 1946, first reference mark. Oct. 30, 1946 in the USSR by the symphony orchestra of state directed by Alexandr Gauk
Concerto-rhapsody for piano and orchestra
Concerto-rhapsody for violin and orchestra
Concerto-rhapsody for violoncello and orchestra
Continuation Drama of Lermontov (six masquerades) (1944)

Ballets

Spartacus
Gayaneh, containing celebrates it Danse of the saber

Chamber music

Trio in minor ground for clarinet, violin and piano (1932)
Sonata for viola alone (1976)

Piano

Adventures of Ivan
Toccata
Study
Sonata for piano (1976)
Dance of the saber

Guitar

Prelude

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