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		Hovhaness was born in Somerville, MA, on March 8, 1911 to Haroutiun Hovhaness Chakmakjian, a chemistry professor, and Madeline Scott Chakmakjian.
		Hovhaness began improvising even before he had piano lessons, and began writing music as soon as he learned to read it at the age of seven.
		Hovhaness' music...sounds modern (but not ultra-modern) in a natural and uninhibited fashion, because he has found new ways to use the archaic materials with which he starts, by following their natural trend towards modal sequence and polymodalism.
	www.newmusicbox.org /news/jul00/obit_hovhaness.html (807 words)

	peermusic classical : Composer Alan Hovhaness
		Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the 20th century's most prolific composers.
		Listening to the Armenian singer Komitas, Hovhaness learned about "saying as much as possible with the fewest possible notes." This was a radical path to take in the 1940s, and one from which he rarely strayed.
		Hovhaness cites his studies in the Far East, as well as his exposure to Uday Shankar (brother of Ravi) as the source of the mysticism in his music.
	www.peermusicclassical.com /composer/composerdetail.cfm?detail=hovhaness (448 words)

	Alan Hovhaness - Music Downloads - Online
		Hovhaness, who was given his professional name by his high school librettist, was extremely prolific.
		Among Hovhaness' best known compositions are "Lousadzak (The Coming Of Light)," written for piano and strings in 1945, "The Prayer Of Saint Gregory," written for trumpet and symphony orchestra in 1952, and, "Seventeen Prayers," written for oud, lute or guitar and string quartet or string orchestra in 1975.
		Hovhaness' composition, "Symphony No. 3" has been described as "a tribute to the Mozartian classical sonata form." He died June 21, 2000 at the age of 89.
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	Alan Hovhaness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alan was interested in music from a very early age, writing his first composition at the age of four after being inspired by hearing a song of Franz Schubert.
		In 1936 Hovhaness attended a performance in Boston by the Indian dance troupe of Uday Shankar (with orchestra led by Vishnudas Shirali), which began the composer's lifelong interest in the music of India.
		Hovhaness is survived by his wife, the coloratura soprano Hinako Fujihara Hovhaness, who administers the Hovhaness-Fujihara music publishing company;[9] as well as a daughter, the harpsichordist Jean Nandi (born Jean Christina Hovaness in 1935, and named after Jean Christian Sibelius, her godfather).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_Hovhaness (2196 words)

	Alan Hovhaness: Symphony No. 22 ("City of Light"); Cello Concerto - The Right Gift For Him (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Hovhaness wrote stunning music, and many of his symphonies are coming into their own both on recordings and in concert halls.
		Alan Hovhaness was one such composer than undeservedly fell by the wayside.
		Alan Hovhaness, a fascinating and prolific exotic among American composers, sought to combine Eastern and Western thought--not only musical, but religious--in his work.
	www.therightgiftforhim.com /store/asinsearch_B00008V5ZW (414 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Hovhaness
		Alan Hovhaness (also spelt Hovaness) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent; and perhaps the most distinctive figure in contemporary music… also one of the most prolific, with an opus tally hovering around 400.
		Hovhaness is said to have begun composing aged four; then studied with Frederick Converse at New England Conservatory and with Bohuslav Martinů; at Tanglewood.
		Hovhaness was also able to recycle supposedly destroyed works in later compositions: the Allegretto Grazioso third movement in his "City of Light" symphony (Symphony No. 22; 1970) originally derives from an operetta written and performed in 1920s.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/hovhaness.html (897 words)

	ALAN HOVHANESS works Part 1: Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Alan Hovhaness, of Armenian and Scottish descent, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 8, 1911.
		All this is music of direct and exquisitely melodic nature, abounding in fascinating rhythmic invention, some of it using microtones (which, the composer feels, frees music from conventional Western restrictions, thereby allowing greater fluidity), and with a unity that touches on a sphere beyond the realm of mere orchestral sound.
		The high quality of the music, the purity of its inspiration, is evidenced in the extreme beauty of the melodic material, which is original material, not collected folklore, and in the perfect sweetness of taste it leaves in the mouth....
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2000/feb00/hovanessworks.htm (2289 words)

	Alan Hovhaness - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Hovhaness was of Armenian and Scottish descent, and many of his works are based on Armenian culture or show influences from Middle Eastern, Asian, or early European music.
		Inspired by nature and Christian mysticism, he was also interested in unusual sonorities, rejecting the harmonic complexities of much modern music in favor of melody, clarity, simplicity, and an encompassing musical atmosphere.
		Hovhaness was enormously prolific; although he destroyed many compositions in 1940, his extant works number about 500, including nearly 70 symphonies.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Hovhanes.html (305 words)

	BMOP :: Alan Hovhaness
		Alan Hovhaness was born in Somerville, MA on 8 March 1911.
		Hovhaness is said to have begun composing aged four; then studied with Frederick Converse at New England Conservatory and with Bohuslav Martin at Tanglewood.
		During this period, Hovhaness also lit the first of his legendary cathartic bonfires; and destroyed a large number of early works.
	www.bmop.org /musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=133 (943 words)

	Alan Hovhaness Mysterious Mountains by Karl Lozier
		That is true of the works on this disc but with the many (at least four or five) compositional periods many of his works are not to be easily recognized.
		Probably the most common one is that possibly as a result of criticism by Aaron Copland, Hovhaness destroyed most of his compositions and basically started anew.
		Also that for Hovhaness, the mountain or mountains are symbols like pyramids between the mundane and spiritual worlds.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/0803/hovhaness.htm (794 words)

	Art of the States: Lousadzak, op. 48
		Described by Hovhaness as a 'spirit murmur,' the technique became one of the composer's signature stylistic traits.
		Born Alan Hovhaness Chakmakjian to Armenian and Scottish parents in Somerville, Massachusetts, Hovhaness began composing at an early age.
		In 1948 Hovhaness taught for three years at the Boston Conservatory; by the time he relocated to New York City in 1951, he had gained a considerable reputation and was able to devote himself entirely to composition.
	artofthestates.org /cgi-bin/piece.pl?pid=330 (888 words)

	Artists: Alan HovhanessNew Age Music
		One of the first composers to derive significant inspiration from the orient, with a modal, highly melodic style, ALAN HOVHANESS is revered as one of the fathers of a generation of eclectic, new age, and world music artists." -Linda Kohanov, Tower Pulse!
		One of the most prolific of the twentieth century composers, ALAN HOVHANESS has written a great deal of music for the piano, mostly to meet his needs in recitals.
		In search for new insights, Hovhaness takes the cultures of non-Western people as his point of departure, while employing the tools of Western music as his frame of reference.
	valley-entertainment.com /Artists/Alan_Hovhaness (203 words)

	Alan Hovhaness (1911 - 2000) - famous Alan Hovhaness Classics hit collection and Alan Hovhaness Music Reviews.
		Alan Hovhaness is one of America’s most idiosyncratic musical pioneers who sought a musical reconciliation between East and West, spiritual and mundane, long before it was fashionable to do so.
		Hovhaness himself described this music as “giant melodies in simple and complex modes around stationery or movable tonal centres".
		Broadly speaking, Hovhaness wrote highly communicative music which is contemplative, rarely harsh, and often with an implied or explicit mystical theme.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/4289.htm (755 words)

	Alan Hovhaness - Armeniapedia.org
		Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent.
		He was born as Alan Vaness Chakmakjian in Somerville, Massachusetts to Haroutiun Vaness Chakmakjian, a chemistry professor at Tufts College, and Madeline Scott.
		(Upon his mother's death (1931), he used the surname "Hovaness" in honor of his paternal grandfather, and officially changed it to "Hovhaness" around 1940.) Alan was interested in music from a very early age, and decided to devote himself to composition at the age of 14.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Alan_Hovhaness (851 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alan Hovhaness (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Alan Hovhaness[hOvhA´nus] Pronunciation Key, 1911–2000, American composer, b.
		Inspired by nature and Christian mysticism, he was also interested in unusual sonorities, rejecting the harmonic complexities of much modern music in favor of melody, clarity, simplicity, and an encompassing musical atmosphere.
		Hovhaness was enormously prolific; although he destroyed many compositions in 1940, his extant works number about 500, including nearly 70 symphonies.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hovhanes.html (273 words)

	Amazon.com: Hovhaness: Requiem and Resurrection; Symphony No. 19 "Vishnu": Music: Alan Hovhaness,Alan Hovhaness,North ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Hovhaness' fascination with Eastern motifs adds an appropriate Middle Eastern flavor to his "Requiem" and his use of brass adds a wonderful boldness to his "Resurrection".
		Hovhaness returns again to his appropriate Eastern flavor with this symphony, and with Hovhaness at the baton, we will never have a better look at what was desired by the composer.
		Hovhaness always wrote to advantage when he had the brass instruments in mind because his melodic line naturally follows vocal contours that sound quite graceful when given to the trumpet, the horn, or the trombone.
	www.amazon.com /Hovhaness-Requiem-Resurrection-Symphony-Vishnu/dp/B000003J74 (1869 words)

	Hovhaness - ALAN HOVHANESS
		Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the 20th century's most prolific composers.
		Alan Hovhaness is one of the most special, and it's comforting to be able to Alan Hovhaness: Yes, I am.
		Alan Hovhaness is a highly prolific composer, with 65 symphonies at the last count Alan Hovhaness Chakmakjian began his new direction in music with the
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	ALAN HOVHANESS on CRYSTAL: Classical CD Reviews-Jan 2000 Music on the Web(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Hovhaness is no brother to Ketelbey but has more in common (if we must find parallels) with Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Charles Griffes, John Foulds and the group who may well have found their origin in his music, the minimalists like Reich and Glass.
		Hovhaness seems never to have been a mainstream composer (despite enjoying no shortage of commissions and being composer-in-residence with the Seattle SO); not even during the late 1960s and early 1970s when a drug-spurred psychedelic mysticism became woven into popular culture: San Francisco, The Beatles, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and Tibetan pilgrimages.
		Hovhaness famously torched a stack of Sibelian compositions in the 1940s and spent a year in India on a Fulbright scholarship.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2000/feb00/hovaness.htm (5348 words)

	Amazon.com: Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain: Music: Alan Hovhaness,Sergey Prokofiev,Igor Stravinsky,Fritz Reiner,Chicago ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The Hovhaness work is from 1955 (Reiner's account came two years later, although the RCA Living Stereo sound could be from yesterday), and it proved to be the composer's fifteen minutes of fame.
		Hovhaness created some lushly atmospheric works that have somehow slipped into the realm of 'old style' and therefore are not performed frequently.
		Amercian composer Alan Hovhaness recognized that there is a spiritual quality to being on top of a mountain, perhaps going back to the Biblical example of the three disciples who joined Jesus Christ on a mountain.
	www.amazon.com /Hovhaness-Mysterious-Mountain-Alan/dp/B000003FMX (2007 words)

	Bagatellen: Alan Hovhaness – Works for Violin/Viola and Keyboard (Fong/Ashby)
		The nine pieces on this disk—one piece of juvenilia, seven pieces from between 1944 and 1954, and one work of 1962—constitute everything Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) wrote for fiddle, with or without piano or harpsichord.
		Hovhaness was extremely prolific, so it is a bit surprising that there was nothing but this hour of music for violinist Christina Fong and pianist Arved Ashby to release (they tried and failed to get permission to include at least one unpublished work).
		Hovhaness provides a lighter (for him) foray into "modern" eclectism with his clever 1952 "Duet for Violin and Harpsichord," but he returns to a more somber (perhaps slightly Amramian?) mode with his 1962 "Three Visions of Saint Mesrob," which is quite lovely.
	bagatellen.com /archives/reviews/000446.html (437 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Alan Hovhaness (1911-)
		Hovhaness is said to have begun composing aged four; then studied with Frederick Converse at New England Conservatory and with Bohuslav Martinu at Tanglewood.
		The basic characteristics of the "Hovhaness sound" are easier to recognise than define; but one of the most obvious "markers" is the strong mystic and religious "feel" to all his works.
		Again like Chopin, Hovhaness is primarily a minaturist - the longest "through-composed" work of his presently available on disc would be the Majnun symphony (Symphony No. 24; 1973), which in Hovhaness's own recording runs 48 minutes; but even this consists of nine distinct movements played with pause.
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=818 (986 words)

	FRANZ LISZT ALAN HOVHANESS PIANO MUSIC-CRISTOFORI FOUNDATION-MARTIN BERKOFSKY
		Hovhaness himself bequeathed scores to the State Museum of Literature and Art of Armenia when he visited us here in 1965.
		He has been an ambassador for Hovhaness for over 30 years, previously working with the composer on the recordings of 'Concerto No.10', 'Khaldis' and 'Saturn' which was composed for his Long Island Chamber Ensemble.
		Alan Hovhaness and father honoured at Chakmakjian's birthplace.
	cristoforifund.tripod.com (587 words)

	Alan Hovhaness
		Alan Hovhaness wrote music which was both unusual and communicative—one of our working definitions of an "Other Mind." In his work, the archaic and the avant-garde are merged, always with melody as the primary focus.
		His farflung borowings of medieval melody, baroque harmonizations, traditional Armenian liturgical monody and modes, the musics of Asia, and his flare for unconventional but richly inspiring instrumental combinations, has given enormous pleasure to those who are devoted to his music.
		Its expressive function is predominantly religious, ceremonial, incantatory, its spiritual content of the purest." When he died in Seattle on June 21, 2000, at the age of 89, his catalogue of works exceeded 500, including over 60 symphonies.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Hovhaness.shtml (350 words)

	Alan Hovhaness - Works for Violin\|Viola & Keyboard
		Hovhaness belongs to that select crew of completely independent souls, who has to follow their own route, their own artistic urge, without ever checking out what is viable in the surrounding society, making him quite inconvenient with the dedicated followers of the avant-garde as well as with the traditionalists.
		In this aspect Alan Hovhaness is the kin of two Swedish composers; Claude Loyola Allgén and Allan Pettersson, who always stood their own ground – because they had no other choice!
		Ashby says that Hovhaness loved the human voice and string instruments for their lack of frets, keys, valves and discrete tunings.
	home.swipnet.se /sonoloco9/ogress/hovhaness.html (908 words)

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