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COMPOSER

Avet Terterian

1929 - 1994

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Alfred Roubenovich "Avet" Terterian (also Terteryan) (Armenian: Ալֆրեդ "Ավետ" Տերտերյան, July 29, 1929 – December 11, 1994) was an Armenian composer, awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize.Terterian composed eight (completed) symphonies, several of which are recorded, an opera and several chamber works.Terterian was a friend and colleague of Giya Kancheli, Konstantin Orbelyan, and Tigran Mansurian. Dmitri Shostakovich praised Terterian as "very talented" and "with great future" in one of his letters, published by his friend Isaak Glikman, having heard a recording of Terterian's works at Armenia's "House of Composers" summer resort in Dilijan, Armenia.He studied at the Music Academy in Baku from 1948, and moved to the Romanos-Melikian Music Academy in 1951. He studied composition at the Komitas State Conservatory in Yerevan from 1952. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Avet Terterian has received more than 36,298 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Avet Terterian is the 1,062nd most popular composer, the 88th most popular biography from Azerbaijan and the 5th most popular Azerbaijani Composer.

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  • 15

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Avet Terterian ranks 1,062 out of 1,216Before him are Yuri Shaporin, Abdylas Maldybaev, Einar Englund, Ján Cikker, Jaromír Weinberger, and Morton Gould. After him are Sanja Ilić, Roger Sessions, Charles Avison, Tristan Murail, Koji Kondo, and William Christie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Avet Terterian ranks 309Before him are Ruth Pfau, Alla Horska, Kenneth MacMillan, Charles Moore, Sebastian Koto Khoarai, and Barbara Walters. After him are Miyoshi Umeki, Lyubov Kozyreva, Claude Nougaro, Rudi Glöckner, Francesco Marchisano, and Rajkumar. Among people deceased in 1994, Avet Terterian ranks 205Before him are Jānis Krūmiņš, Lew Hoad, Tom Ewell, Sigmund Ruud, Severino Minelli, and Masayoshi Ito. After him are Ladislav Mňačko, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Fernando de Santiago, François Marty, Rosa Chacel, and Bud Houser.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Avet Terterian ranks 88 out of 189Before him are Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (1919), Hamida Javanshir (1873), Fuad Abdurahmanov (1915), Mikayil Abdullayev (1921), Mammad Hasan Hajinski (1875), and Artem Alikhanian (1908). After him are Abbas Sahhat (1874), Alim Qasimov (1957), Rustam Ibragimbekov (1939), Tofig Guliyev (1917), Galina Bystrova (1934), and Elza Ibrahimova (1938).

Among COMPOSERS In Azerbaijan

Among composers born in Azerbaijan, Avet Terterian ranks 5Before him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885), Fikret Amirov (1922), Gara Garayev (1918), and Arif Malikov (1933). After him are Tofig Guliyev (1917), Elza Ibrahimova (1938), and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947).