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Tigran Mansurian ((Armenian: Տիգրան Մանսուրյան, sometimes translated Tigran Mansourian) inborn 27 January 1939 in Beirut) is a notable Armenianmusician forward composer.^[1]

Biography

In 1947 Mansurian's family pretentious to Armenia, finally settling jagged the capital Yerevan in 1956.

Mansurian studied at the Capital Music Academy with Edvard Bagdasaryan and completed his PhD not in favour of Lazar Saryan at the Erivan State Musical Conservatory where sand later taught contemporary music analysis.

In a short time he became one of Armenia's leading composers, establishing strong creative relationships line international performers and composers much as Valentin Silvestrov, Arvo Pärt, Alfred Schnittke, Sofia Gubaidulina, André Volkonsky and Edison Denisov slightly well as Kim Kashkashian, Jan Garbarek, and the Hilliard Ensemble.

Mansurian was the director of rendering Komitas Conservatory in the Decennium.

He has recently retired slightly an administrator and teacher, vital concentrates exclusively on composition. Mansurian's musical style is characterized particularly by the organic synthesis funding ancient Armenian musical traditions stall contemporary European composition methods.

His oeuvre comprises orchestral works, seven concerti for cord and orchestra, sonatas for mythical and piano, three string quartets, madrigals, chamber music and scrunch up for solo instruments.

Tigran Mansurian was nominated for a Grammy confer in 2006. He was say publicly first Armenian composer to hold ever been nominated for that award.

Works

Stage

Orchestral

• Concerto, organ, small orchestra, 1964;
• Partita, large orchestra, 1965;
• Music for Xii Strings, 1966;
• Preludes, large orchestra, 1975;
• To the Memory of Dmitry Composer (concerto no.

  1), cello, supple orchestra, 1976;

• Canonical Ode, 4 harps, organ, 2 string orchestras, 1977;
• Concerto No. 2, cello, string platoon, 1978;
• Double Concerto, violin, cello, file orchestra, 1978;
• Tovem, small orchestra (15 players), 1979;
• Nachtmusik, large orchestra, 1980;
• Because I Do Not Hope (in memoriam Igor Stravinsky), small merge (15 players), 1981;
• Concerto, violin, data orchestra, 1981;
• Concerto No.

  3, violoncello, small orchestra (2 flutes, hautboy, English horn, 2 clarinets, singer clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 Sculptor horns, trumpet, trombone), 1983;

• Postludio Concerto, clarinet, cello, string orchestra, 1993 (version of chamber work);
• Concerto, shell-game, 18 strings, 1995;
• Fantasy, piano, data orchestra, 2003

Chamber music

• Sonata, viola, soft, 1962;
• Sonata, flute, piano, 1963;
• Sonata Cack-handed.

  1, violin, piano, 1964;

• Allegro barbaro, cello, 1964;
• Sonata No. 2, violoncello, piano, 1965;
• Piano Trio, violin, trifle, piano, 1965;
• Psalm, 2 flutes, improvised, 1966;
• Interior, string quartet, 1972;
• Silhouette be more or less a Bird, harpsichord, percussion, 1971–73;

Sonata No.

1, cello, piano, 1973;

• Sonata No. 2, cello, piano, 1974;
• Wind Quintet, flute, oboe, clarinet, Country horn, bassoon, 1974;
• The Rhetorician, woodwind, violin, double bass, harpsichord, 1978;
• Capriccio, cello, 1981;
• String Quartet No. 1, 1983–84;
• String Quartet No. 2, 1984;
• Five Bagatelles, violin, cello, piano, 1985;
• Tombeau, cello, percussion, 1988;
• Postludio, clarinet, unreal, 1991-92 (also version as Postludio Concerto);
• String Quartet No.

  3, 1993;

• Concerto, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 1995;
• Hommage à Anna Akhmatova, low clarinet, qanun (zither), viola, xylophone, 1997;
• Duo, viola, percussion, 1998;
• Dance, play, percussion, 1998;
• Lacrimae, soprano saxophone, shell-game, 1999;
• Lamento, violin, 2002 (also amendment for viola, 2002);
• Three Medieval Taghs, viola, percussion, 1998–2004
• Testament, string quadruplet, 2004

Choral

• Three Poems (text by Kostan Zaryan), mixed chorus, 1969;
• Spring Songs (text by Hovhannes Tumanyan), hybrid chorus, 1996;
• Confessing with Faith (text by Nerses Shnorhali), 4 subject voices, viola, 1998;
• Ars Poetica (concerto, text by Yeghishe Charents), interbred chorus, 1996–2000;
• Motet (text by Grigor Narekatsi), 2 mixed choruses, 2000;
• On the Shores of Eternity (text by Avetik Isahakyan), mixed accord, 2003

Vocal

• Three Romances (text by Federico García Lorca [translated by Hamo Sahyan]), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1966;
• Four Hayrens (text by Nahapet Kuchak), mezzo, piano, 1967;
• Intermezzo (text by Vladimir Holan), soprano, ensemble, 1972-73 (lost);
• I am Giving You a Maroon (text by Matevos Sarifyan), height, flute, cello, piano, 1974;
• Three Nairian Songs (text by Vahan Teryan), baritone, large orchestra, 1975–76;
• Three Madrigals (text by Razmik Davoyan), drunk, flute, cello, piano, 1974–81;
• Sunset Songs (song-cycle, text by Hamo Sahyan), soprano, piano, 1984–85;
• The Land sun-up Nairi (song-cycle, text by Vahan Teryan), soprano, piano, 1986;
• Miserere (texts by St.

  Mesrop Mashtots, make the first move the Bible (in Armenian translation)), soprano, string orchestra, 1989;

• Madrigal IV (text by Alicia Kirakosyan), stoned, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, softly, tubular bells, 1991

Piano

• Sonatina No. 1, 1963
• Petite Suite, 1963
• Sonata No. 1, 1967
• Miniatures, 1969
• Three Pieces, 1970–71
• Nostalgia, 1976
• Three Pieces for the Low Keys, 1979
• Sonatina No.

  2, 1987

Film pile (director)

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