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	Komitas Vartabed
		Komitas learned a great deal of music from the monks and continued to study music with the famous composer Kara-Mourza, which eventually led Komitas into both secular and religious music.
		Komitas continued to study music, and in 1896, he was awarded a doctorate degree in musicology.
		It is interesting to note that in the spring of 1915, during the imprisonment of leaders of the Armenian community, Komitas too was taken into custody.
	www.armenianheritage.com /dakomita.htm (466 words)

	A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF KOMITAS to the famous film Komitas by Don Askarian. The well-known Armenian monk and ...
		Komitas returned to Etchmiadsin in 1899 to organize the cathedral choir.
		Komitas found himself in a hopeless Situation: The people to which he had dedicated his entire life was almost destroyed.
		To this was to be added the engendering physical and Spiritual suffering to which Komitas was subjected in the psychiatric hospital.
	www.don-askarian.am /articles/biography_of_komitas.htm (546 words)

	Music: Music of Komitas Vartabed (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Komitas Vartabed's major contributions to Armenian musical tradition are his collection of folk music, and his Badarak, or Divine Liturgy, of the Armenian Church.
		Komitas had become concerned that the music of the Badarak, which was passed down from priest to priest, had been inordinately influenced by the secular music common in the various regions where Armenians lived.
		Komitas Vartabed is acknowledged to be the premier Armenian composer and musicologist of his time.
	www.tol.cz /look/store/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=11&NrIssue=1&NrSection=8&NrArticle=7861 (634 words)

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		By the beginning of the 20th century Komitas believed he had succeeded in cracking the notation code, and was about to make public his research when the genocide ended his career.
		Komitas' unraveling of the medieval code was lost with his sanity, and it is only recently that researchers believe they have succeeded in deciphering the notation.
		Komitas is venerated by Armenians worldwide, and his repertoire of both sacred and folk music is a hallmark of Armenia's and Europe's music traditions.
	www.tacentral.com /echmiadzin/efs-7.htm (470 words)

	KOMITAS - Armenian Music For Piano
		After his return to Etchmiadzin in 1900, Komitas was engaged in field work, documenting the dance tunes and folk songs of the Caucasus and the Ararat Plateau and investigating the Armenian khaz (neumatic) notation system of the eleventh century.
		Komitas was invited to teach harmony and Western music history at the new conservatory which was to open soon.
		Komitas' musical output is voluminous and diverse, encompassing liturgical chants, art and folk songs, choral settings all of which mirror, as no other composer's work has done, the Armenian ethos.
	www.megrecordings.com /Info/meg004.html (1126 words)

	Alex Theatre - November 2007 Calendar of Events
		2:00 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. Komitas International Academy of the Arts presents
		THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL KOMITAS HONORS - FLORA MARTIROSIAN
		FREE BACKSTAGE AND HISTORIC TOUR OF ALEX THEATRE
	www.alextheatre.org /calendar/calendar.html (71 words)

	Goskel Kartel
		Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935), the Armenian priest, ethno-musicologist and composer is regarded as the Father of Armenian music.
		Komitas Vardapet is regarded as a national saint in Armenian history.
		Komitas stood in front of a large horn, like the one on an old Victor talking machine, and sang into it.
	www.traditionalcrossroads.com /cd/4275.html (866 words)

	Marie Awadis Thesis on Vagharshabat Dance
		Komitas was invited to speak on the subject of Armenian music at the chapter’s inaugural meeting.
		In Komitas first version (1902), we see that as a tempo he mentioned “presto” on the piece, but later the piano arrangement (1907) is slower in tempo (.=48), and characterized by the word “Nazani” (in Armenian meaning “gracious”) in the header.
		As to the tonality Komitas is using on the key F sharp and C sharp and during the melody we see a B flat, while in the higher octave we observe a change in the F sharp becoming F natural.
	15levels.com /maria/html/thesis.html (9056 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Hayren: Music of Komitas and Tigran Mansurian
		Mansurian interpret's Komitas as Brahms sitting in front of his piano was interpreting compositions by Beethoven.
		Komitas' music was minimal and yet perfectly matched to the haunting folk songs he collected.
		Komitas' music is laced with tender fragility and a soulful honesty that produces a pensive serenity.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=B00008UAFW (958 words)

	Komitas - Armeniapedia.org
		Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonyan - Komitas Vardapet ("Սողոմոն Գևորքի Սողոմոնյան" - "Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ" in Armenian), by Western Armenian transliteration also Gomidas Vartabed, born on September 26 or October 8 (see discussion) 1869 in Kütahya, Turkey, died on October 22, 1935 in Paris, France, was an Armenian priest, composer of choir music, and musicologist.
		Among 20 candidates Soghomon was chosen, entered the seminary (where he impressed the katholikos with his singing talent) and finished it in 1893 when he became a monk.
		His good friend, Turkish poet Emin Yurdakul, and the U.S. ambassador Henry Morgenthau intervened at the government so Komitas was released soon but he found a part of his collection destroyed or totally disordered.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=Komitas (490 words)

	Divine Liturgy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		While Komitas was spared the fate of his friends, upon his return to Constantinople he found his life's work -- manuscripts, research findings on the 'khaz' notation system (Armenian neumatic notation of the eleventh century) and his library -- in total disarray.
		It is inspired by Komitas' studies of the Armenian 'khaz' and his research in Armenian vocal traditions.
		It is the fullest expression of Komitas' lifelong preoccupation with the creation of a national music whose sources are at once secular and sacred, and which is rooted in the toil of the Armenian peasant and the aspirations to religious transcendence.
	www.newalbion.com /NA033 (245 words)

	Komitas Vardapet - Haypedia
		Er förderte Komitas und vermittelte ihm Stipendien für Studien in Tiflis (bei Makar Ekmalian) und Berlin, wo er sich am privaten Konservatorium von Prof.
		Komitas hat ungefähr 3000 dörfliche Gesänge (Arbeits-, Hochzeits-, Liebeslieder und Tänze, aber auch Lieder über die leidvolle Erfahrung der Vertreibung, die sein Volk immer wieder getroffen hat) gesammelt.
		Komitas unternahm häufig Reisen durch ganz Europa (vor allem Berlin und Paris besuchte er mehrfach) und das Osmansiche Reich (das damals neben der heutigen Türkei auch den Nahen Osten bis nach Ägypten umfasste).
	de.haypedia.org /index.php?title=Komitas_Vardapet (1122 words)

	'Komitas' reawakened - Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
		The revered Armenian historical figure, who was born in Asia Minor in 1869 as Soghomon Soghomonian, assumed the name Komitas a quarter of a century later, when he was ordained as a monk in the Armenian church.
		Add to this the facts that Komitas went insane after Turkey began carrying out the Armenian genocide in 1915 and that he spent two decades in mental hospitals before dying in Paris, and it's easy to see why a performing artist would be drawn to his story.
		She says Armenians have long considered Komitas' music "a song of the people," and so she chose various tunes and instrumental works -- from religious and children's songs to lively peasant and wedding airs -- as much for their emotional content as for their melodies.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /js04/040913komitas.html (994 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail
		Komitas, renowned Armenian monk, ethnomusicologist, and musician, is a centrally important representative of Armenian musical art and one of its most distinguished figures.
		Komitas Vartabed's major contributions to Armenian musical tradition are his collection of folk music and his Badarak (Divine Liturgy) of the Armenian Church.
		In an exhaustive effort to restore the tradition melodies of the liturgy, he traveled widely to rural Armenian villages in search of the most elder priests; he reasoned that their chanting would be closest to the original melodies of the Badarak.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=1733 (362 words)

	ARBEITSGRUPPE ANERKENNUNG - GEGEN GENOZID, FÜR VÖLKERVERSTÄNDIGUNG (AGA)
		Mit ähnlichen Chorgründungen in anderen großen armenischen Gemeinschaften trug Komitas erheblich zur Popularisierung der klassischen armenischen Musik bei.
		Ende April 1915 (alten Stils) wurde Komitas ebenso wie über 2000 andere Armenier, darunter Hunderte prominente Intellektuelle, festgenommen und unter unter dem Vorwurf des Hochverrats in die Provinz Ankara verschleppt, in das Gefangenenlager Çankiri.
		Wir verneigen uns tief vor der Genialität und Kreativität dieses unter tragischen Verhältnissen lebenden und wirkenden Musikschaffenen und erkennen in der Zerstörung seiner Schaffenskraft durch den Völkermord exemplarisch die Destruktivität, die jeder Genozid an seinen Opfern, körperlich wie seelisch, bewirkt.
	www.aga-online.org /de/links/komitas.php (767 words)

	Details for Yerevan Chamber Choir/Music Of Komitas Vartabed at CDconnection.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Armenian composer Komitas Vartabed was born in 1869.
		Orphaned at age 11, Komitas grew up in a monastery where he was recognized by the patriarchs for exceptional skills as a singer.
		In 1893, Komitas made the plunge into the priesthood of the Armenian Church and was quickly promoted in the sacerdotal ranks to the learned level of Vartabed.
	www.cdconnection.com /details/Yerevan_Chamber_Choir__Music_Of_Komitas_Vartabed/485364?s=nhz029qkFO1b (395 words)

	Radio Paradise - eclectic online rock radio
		Komitas is the one of the most famous historical figures within the Armenian culture.
		Komitas is singing on the first couple of tracks.
		First, the title of the CD is misleading since it is not Komitas who sings, but a student of his.
	www.radioparadise.com /content.php?name=Amazon&asin=B0000031G6 (291 words)

	Komitas in the modern Armenia
		Indeed, the name of Komitas today is directly or indirectly present in all the different and at times unexpected occurrences.
		What Armenia has today is Komitas’ dream that didn’t come true during his lifetime: it is well-known that all his life he dreamt of opening a higher musical institution on his motherland, for local preparation of professional music candidates.
		In 2004, Komitas Publishing House established a library where non-published manuscripts of Armenian composers of different periods are preserved.
	www.komitas.am /eng/modern_armenia.htm (1063 words)

	ECM
		Komitas (1869-1935) is revered by Armenians as his nation’s most brilliant songwriter.
		As he makes clear in his liner notes, he is not a “singer” in the accepted sense but it is precisely the heartfelt “artlessness” of his delivery that draws out the charm of the material, that returns it to “folk music”, in the best sense.
		In the 1990s, a difficult period for Armenia, Mansurian became the director of the Komitas Conservatory.
	www.ecmrecords.com /Background/Background_1754.php (938 words)

	Classical Net Review - Komitas/Mansurian - Hayren
		Mansurian "adapted" the eleven Komitas selections on this CD.
		His booklet note doesn't make clear, however, whether the works are entirely Komitas's own, or whether Komitas in turn adapted them from more ancient sources.
		The note also doesn't identify Komitas's original scoring.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/e/ecm01754a.html (458 words)

	CD Baby: KOMITAS QUARTET: Komitas, Haydn, Shostakovich
		Studio Nova Records is proud to present the reissue of Komitas Quartet's "Komitas - Haydn - Shostakovitch" album, originally released in 1994.
		Showcasing some of the most popular compositions of the Armenian legendary ethnomusicologist, Komitas Vardapet, Komitas Quartet's masterful performance on this recording is truly a unique and an engaging one.
		All musicians of the quartet play Guarnerius instruments, Andrea and Pietro, of 17 and 18 centuries and their skill is so brilliant that it has always created overwhelming response in all countries of the world they toured, over 70 in total.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/komitas (207 words)

	"Milliyetçiliği İyi Bir Şey Sanırdım"
		Komitas Soghomonyan Kütahyalı doğumlu Ermeni bir müzisyen, Anadolu'da türküler derledi ama 1915'de Çankırı'da sürgüne gönderildi.
		Komitas, Anadolu topraklarını karış karış dolaşıp yüzlerce Ermeni türküsü derledi.
		Komitas, yine Halide Edip'in yardımıyla Paris'e gönderilerek 20 yıl boyunca bir hastane odasında kaldı.
	www.bianet.org /2003/04/28/18545.htm (884 words)

	Armenian genocide of 1915 examined in pair of films at MFA
		Komitas is a reserved meditation on the troubled life of the Armenian monk Soghomon Soghomonian, known as Komitas, who was an internationally known composer and expert on Armenian folk music.
		Komitas was devastated by the horrors of the 1915 massacre and spent the rest of his years in various mental institutions.
		Because Komitas is a sober and poetic meditation on the life of a tragic figure and a tragic moment in history, the film obviously does not function as a conventional film biography of Komitas or any factual account of the 1915 massacre.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V109/N27/mfa.27a.html (1010 words)

	Singer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Then, till his tragical death, Komitas used his superior voice opportunities, Armenian modern and spiritual music, to reach, recordnize and love his voice, to the music world.
		But Komitas refused and said,”My songer’s possibility must use only for one purpos, for my people to recognize my song and music to musical world”.
		Komitas with his magic voice charmed all Armenian and foreign music lovers.
	library.thinkquest.org /C005543/Englsite/Image/As_singer.htm (270 words)

	Komitas, Haydn, Shostakovich
		KOMITAS QUARTET Established in 1924 at the Moscow State Tchaykovsky Conservatory by four talented Armenian students, Komitas State Quartet celebrates its 80th Anniversary in 2004.
		All musicians of the quartet play Guarnerius instruments, Andrea and Pietro, of 17 and 18 centuries and their skill is so brilliant that it has always created overwhelming response in all countries of the world they toured, over 70 in total.
		Showcasing some of the most popular compositions of the Armenian legendary ethnomusicologist, Komitas Vardapet, Komitas Quartet’s masterful performance on this recording is truly a unique and an engaging one.
	www.link-web.net /track_listings_08/komitas_haydn_shostakovich.html (231 words)

	Fund For Armenian Relief
		Founded in 1920, the Komitas Conservatory is the only higher education establishment in Armenia dedicated to music.
		In 1996, the Komitas Conservatory invited its renowned alumnus to partake in the celebratory events of its 75th anniversary.
		Having already expressed his gratitude toward the Komitas Conservatory and his devotion to and veneration of Armenian music in 1996 by sponsoring the publication of the textbook History of Armenian Music, Maestro Arsen Sayan wished to provide a personal, lasting tribute to the school that had inspired and instructed him.
	www.farusa.org /newsevents_newsroom.asp?p=15 (1106 words)

	Life in the Armenian Diaspora
		Add to that the fact songs by Komitas were also going to be featured; this CD had all the markings of a classic recording.
		Mansuryan asks the listener to imagine that his vocal interpretation of Komitas, off key and all, is the way that “common folk” would have sung it in the day.
		Thus, it is safe to assume that for many outside of our Armenian circle, their first introduction of Komitas will be through this new ECM release of Mansuryan’s interpretations of Komitas.
	www.cilicia.com /2003/08/once-in-while-id-like-to-share-cd.html (1213 words)

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