User:Samvel1981/Haro Stepanian

Haro Stepanian Armenian: Հարո Ստեփանյան
Background information
Birth name	Haro Levoni Stepanian
Born	(1897-04-25)April 25, 1897 Elisavetpol, Russia
Died	January 9, 1966(1966-01-09) (aged 68) Yerevan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Formerly of	Opera and Ballet Theater ArmATOB named after A. A. Spendiarov
Spouse(s)	Ligia Mamadjanian
|| || ||

Haro Stepanian (Armenian: Հարո (Արա) Լևոնի Ստեփանյան; 1897—1966) — Armenian Soviet composer Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1951). People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1960).

Creative biography

Memorial plaque in Yerevan. Mashtots Avenue , 43

Born April 13 (April 25) 1897 в Elizavetpol (now Ganja, Azerbaijan). In 1923 — 1926 годах studied at the Gnesins Music College in the composition class of М. Gnesin.

In 1930 graduated Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Leningrad State Conservatory in the composition class of Vladimir Shcherbachov.

In 1930 — 1934 taught at the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan.

In 1937 — 1948 the chairman of the organizing committee of the Union of Composers of the Armenian SSR.

In his chamber vocal and instrumental compositions, a special place is occupied by psychologically profound, philosophical lyrics. The best works of Stepanian are distinguished by realistic images and bright national identity. His music is associated with national Armenian music, as well as Russian and Western European musical classics.

Actively participated in folklore expeditions.

Died January 9, 1966 in Yerevan, Armenia

Awards and prizes

• 2 Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (4.11.1939, 27.06.1956)
• Order of the Badge of Honour (24.11.1945)
• People's Artist of the Armenian SSR (1960)
• Stalin Prize of the third degree (1951) — for the «Geroinya», staged in Yerevan Opera Theatre named after Alexander Spendiaryan

Musical works

Operas:

• Brave Nazar (1934)
• David of Sasun (1936)
• At Sunrise (1938)
• Nune (1947)
• Geroinya (1951) >

Compositions for soloists, choir and symphony orchestra:

• Kolkhoz cantata (lyrics by Sarmen, 1947)
• Oratorio «Unceasing bell» (lyrics by Paruyr Sevak, 1964)

Compositions for symphony orchestra:

• poems: In memory of 26 Baku commissars (1938), Lur-da-lur (1944)
• suites: from the film "Mountain Stream" (1939), Orchestic (1951)
• symphonies: I (1943), II (1945), III (1953)

Compositions for piano and symphony orchestra:

• concert (1959)
• rapsody (1962)

Compositions for vocal and symphony orchestra:

• songs based on verses by Sayat-Nova (1940)
• «To my Motherland» (5 songs on verses by Avetik Isahakyan, Vahan Terian, Derenik Demirchian, Boris Karapetyan, 1940)
• four romances ob verses by Hovhannes Shiraz (1953)

Compositions for cor anglais and string quartet:

• poem and dance (1929)

Compositions for 2 violins, viola and cello:

• fragments (1939)
• quartets: I (1940), II (1940), III (1957), IV (1958)

Compositions for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon:

• miniatures (three passages, 1958)

Compositions for violin and piano:

• poem (1930)
• Pioneer Cycle" (5 plays, 1931)
• elegy (1938)
• sonatas: I (1943), II (1947)
• four pieces (1954)

Compositions for cello and piano:

• suite (1927)
• pastoral and dance (1939)
• sonatas: I (1943), II (1963)
• four pieces (1954)

Compositions for flute and piano:

• four pieces (1957)

Compositions for oboe and piano:

• four pieces (1957)

Compositions for bassoon and piano:

• four pieces (1957)

Compositions for cor anglais and piano:

• four pieces (1958)

Compositions for piano:

• plays (children's, 1932)
• sixteen preludes (1948)
• sonata (1949)
• ballad (1961)
• lyric pieces (1962)

Compositions for organ:

• «Besso ostinato» (1928)

Compositions for vocal and piano:

• four songs (folk words, 1926)
• four songs on verses by Gegham Saryan (1934)
• vocalise (1934)
• «"From old songs" (on verses by Armenian poets, 1935)
• two tales (on lyrics Hovhannes Tumanyan, Khnko Aper, 1942)
• romances on verses by Avetik Isahakyan (1938—1943)
• five romances to the words of oriental poets (1943)
• "From medieval poetry" (on verses Astvacatur, Nahapet Kuchak, Mkrtich Naghash, Naghash Hovnatan, 1945)
• "The Wolf and the Cat" fairy tale (lyrics by Khnko Aper 1945)
• four romances (on verses by Avetik Isahakyan and Sarmen, 1945)
• five romances on verses by Hovhannes Shiraz (1953)
• three songs (on verses by Hovhannes Shiraz, Gegham Saryan, Vahan Terian, 1953)
• six romances on verses by Sarmen (1960)
• two romances in memory of Chopin on verses by Sarmen (1963)
• "Songs about bread" (on verses by Daniel Varoujan, 1965)

Choirs to the words of Armenian poets

Children's songs to the words of Armenian poets

Arrangements of Armenian folk songs

Notes

Soviet Music Encyclopedia,1981

Literature

• Vartanov X. Аро Степанян.— М., 1939

Ссылки

• [dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_biography/116469/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD Аро Левонович Степанян в Большой биографической энциклопедии.]

[[Category:Soviet classical musicians]] [[Category:Armenian classical musicians]] [[Category:Opera composers]] [[Category:Soviet film score composers]] [[Category:Armenian film score composers]] [[Category:Academic staff of the Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan]] [[Category:Saint Petersburg Conservatory alumni]] [[Category:Stalin Prize winners]] [[Category:People's Artists of Armenia]] [[Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour]] [[Category:20th-century composers]] [[Category:Armenian composers]] [[Category:Soviet composers]] [[Category:1966 deaths]] [[Category:1897 births]]