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Karen Khachaturian

1920 - 2011

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Karen Surenovich Khachaturian (Russian: Карэн Суренович Хачатурян, Armenian: Կարեն Խաչատրյան) (Moscow, 19 September 1920 – Moscow, 19 July 2011) was a Soviet and Russian composer of Armenian ethnicity and the nephew of composer Aram Khachaturian. Khachaturian was born in Moscow, the son of Suren Khachaturian, a theatrical director. His studies under Genrikh Litinsky at the Moscow Conservatory were interrupted by a term of duty in the entertainment division of the Red Army. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karen Khachaturian has received more than 54,513 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Karen Khachaturian is the 956th most popular composer (down from 898th in 2019), the 1,295th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,146th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Russian Composer.

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  • 16

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Karen Khachaturian ranks 956 out of 1,216Before him are Marvin Hamlisch, Wilhelm Kienzl, Tan Dun, Édouard Deldevez, Marcos Portugal, and Joseph Hellmesberger Sr.. After him are Walter Braunfels, Maximilian Steinberg, Nicola Vicentino, Patrick Doyle, Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, and Toshi Ichiyanagi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Karen Khachaturian ranks 212Before him are Lydia Wideman, Gabrielle Wittkop, Virginia Mayo, Camillo Felgen, Michel Audiard, and Janet Jagan. After him are Siegfried Buback, Ross Martin, Tony Randall, Stanko Todorov, Bengt Ekerot, and Andrew V. McLaglen. Among people deceased in 2011, Karen Khachaturian ranks 201Before him are Josefa Iloilo, Robert Ettinger, Bhimsen Joshi, Ingvar Wixell, Jiří Dienstbier, and Harry Morgan. After him are Arnfinn Bergmann, Hidemaro Watanabe, Jacques Fatton, Inge Sørensen, Sakyo Komatsu, and Nirmala Srivastava.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Karen Khachaturian ranks 1,295 out of 3,262Before him are Alexey Miller (1962), Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864), Andrey Lukanov (1938), Semyon Bogdanov (1894), Pavel Chichagov (1767), and Yuliya Solntseva (1901). After him are Irina Solovyova (1937), Karl Maximovich (1827), Vladimir Vasiliev (1940), Alexander Men (1935), Sergei Makarov (1958), and Igor Chislenko (1939).

Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Karen Khachaturian ranks 45Before him are Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752), Eduard Artemyev (1937), Erkki Melartin (1875), Ivan Larionov (1830), Alexander Serov (1820), and Vissarion Shebalin (1902). After him are Gavriil Popov (1904), Aulis Sallinen (1935), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Hermann Goetz (1840), Shlomo Mintz (1957), and Nicolas Slonimsky (1894).