Makar Yekmalyan
Illustration — Makar Yekmalyan Makar Grigori Yekmalyan (also transliterated Ekmalian; in Armenian Մակար Եկմալյան) (2 February 1856, Vagharshapat - 6 March 1905, Tiflis) was an Armenian composer.
Also recorded as Makar Grigori Yekmalyan · Yekmalyan, Makar Grigori
Makar Yekmalyan
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- Born
- 1856 · Vagharshapat.
- Died
- 1905 · Tbilisi.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
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- composer · conductor · music educator · musicologist
- Education
- Saint Petersburg Conservatory
- Languages
- Armenian
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Illustration — Makar Yekmalyan Makar Grigori Yekmalyan (also transliterated Ekmalian; in Armenian Մակար Եկմալյան) (2 February 1856, Vagharshapat - 6 March 1905, Tiflis) was an Armenian composer.
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Makar Yekmalyan studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Stepan Demuryan, Anton Mailyan and Tigran Nalbandyan are recorded as having studied under Makar Yekmalyan. The recorded working language is Armenian. Residence is recorded at Saint Petersburg and Tbilisi. Employment is recorded with Gevorkian Theological Seminary and Nersisian School.
Yekmalyan studied at the Echmiadzin seminary and later in St Petersburg with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He then taught music in Tbilisi (Tiflis), where he died in 1905. His most noted composition was the Patarag (in Armenian Պատարագ), the setting of the Armenian Apostolic Church's Divine Liturgy, which he completed in 1892 in several arrangements. Patarag was first published in Leipzig in 1896.
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Makar Yekmalyan died in 1905 at Tbilisi.
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Makar Yekmalyan studied at Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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