COMPOSER

Komitas

1869 - 1935

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Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas (Armenian: Կոմիտաս; 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1869 – 22 October 1935), was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music. He is recognized as one of the pioneers of ethnomusicology. Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to Etchmiadzin, Armenia's religious center, where he received education at the Gevorgian Seminary. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Komitas has received more than 347,135 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Komitas is the 160th most popular composer (up from 185th in 2019), the 233rd most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 299th in 2019) and the most popular Turkish Composer.

Komitas is most famous for being the composer of the Armenian national anthem.

Memorability Metrics

  • 350k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Komitas ranks 160 out of 1,451. Before him are Michel Legrand, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Vincenzo Galilei, Michael Haydn, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Ferruccio Busoni. After him are Siegfried Wagner, Giovanni Paisiello, Max Reger, Bohuslav Martinů, Vittorio Monti, and Reinhold Glière.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1869, Komitas ranks 16. Before him are Karl Haushofer, Emma Goldman, Fritz Pregl, Hans Spemann, Frederick Trump, and Christian Lous Lange. After him are Calouste Gulbenkian, Siegfried Wagner, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Rudolf Otto, Karl Seitz, and Felix Salten. Among people deceased in 1935, Komitas ranks 23. Before him are Charles Richet, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, Henri Barbusse, Paul Dukas, Hugo de Vries, and Henri Pirenne. After him are Lij Iyasu of Ethiopia, Mihajlo Pupin, Max Liebermann, Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, Ali of Hejaz, and Josef Suk.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Komitas ranks 233 out of 1,347. Before him are John VII Palaiologos (1370), Theodora Porphyrogenita (984), Fatih Terim (1953), Kenan Evren (1917), Eumenes (-362), and Julius Martov (1873). After him are Calouste Gulbenkian (1869), Basilios Bessarion (1403), Ismihan Sultan (1544), Evagrius Ponticus (345), Alexander of Aphrodisias (200), and Socrates of Constantinople (380).

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Among COMPOSERS In Türkiye

Among composers born in Türkiye, Komitas ranks 1. After him are Aristides Quintilianus (150), Tigran Chukhajian (1837), Ahmet Adnan Saygun (1907), Manolis Kalomiris (1883), and Necil Kazım Akses (1908).

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