Eduard Khagagortyan

Armenian composer Eduard Khagagortian (1930-1983) studied violin in his childhood. He entered later the Yerevan State Conservatory where he studied composition with Grigor Egiazarian, graduating in 1954. Ten years later, he attended the Moscow Conservatory, where he was a student of Aram Khachaturian. Khagagortian made significant musical contributions to the former Soviet Union, not only through his orchestral and chamber works, but also through theater and film music. He was deputy editor of the publishing firm Sovetskii Kompozitor, and was nominated an Honored Representative of the Arts of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1979. Known for his symphonies, Khagagortian's style “blends cosmopolitan and Armenian elements”.