Edgar Hovhannisyan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Edgar Hovhannisyan

Armenian composer

Date of Birth: 14-Jan-1930

Place of Birth: Yerevan, Armenia

Date of Death: 28-Dec-1998

Profession: composer, film score composer, music pedagogue

Nationality: Armenia

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Edgar Hovhannisyan, Hovhannisian or Oganesian (Armenian: ????? ????????????; January 14, 1930, Yerevan – December 28, 1998, Yerevan) was an Armenian composer, Professor of Composition at the Yerevan State Conservatory, People's Artist of the USSR (1986). He finished the Yerevan State Conservatory in 1953, then pursued post-graduate work at the Moscow Conservatory, where he worked under famed Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian.
He was the director of the State Opera and Ballet Theater in Yerevan in 1962–1968. Hovhannisyan is widely considered among the most influential Armenian composers of the 20th century.
He is the author of ballets, including "Janna D'Ark", "Sulamif", and "Marmar".
He also experimented with various musical styles, including neo-classical, folk-based styles, and even jazz — such as in the "Concert Variations for Saxophone and Jazz Orchestra", opera ("The Travel to Arzrum"), various vocal-orchestral works (e.g.
the oratorio "Grikor Naregatsi", the hymn of Yerevan), and numerous film scores.