Avet Terterian
Encyclopedia
Avet Terterian (July 29, 1929 in Baku
, Azerbaijan
– December 11, 1994 in Yekaterinburg
, Russia
) was an Armenia
n composer, awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize
. He was a friend and colleague of Giya Kancheli
, Konstantin Orbelyan
, and Tigran Mansuryan. 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 composed eight (completed) symphonies, an opera
and several chamber works
.
Several of his symphonies
are recorded, as noted in one of the pages linked. (The date 1973 in the Musicweb review of the Melodiya recording of symphony 3 is probably a typographical error, since the publisher's listing also gives 1975 for the first performance of that work.)
Yekaterinburg
's annual music festival is named after him.
Much of his music is available from Sikorski Music Publishers
.
Baku
Baku , sometimes spelled as Baki or Bakou, is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, which projects into the Caspian Sea. The city consists of two principal...
, Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan , officially the Republic of Azerbaijan is the largest country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to...
– December 11, 1994 in Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
) was an Armenia
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
n composer, awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize
Konrad Adenauer Prize
The Konrad Adenauer Prize is an award that was infrequently awarded by the Germany Foundation, an organisation associated with the Christian Democratic Union, from 1967 to 2001...
. He was a friend and colleague of Giya Kancheli
Giya Kancheli
Giya Kancheli , born 10 August 1935, in Tbilisi, is a Georgian composer resident in Belgium.Since 1991, Kancheli has lived in Western Europe: first in Berlin, and since 1995 in Antwerp, where he is composer-in-residence for the Royal Flemish Philharmonic....
, Konstantin Orbelyan
Konstantin Orbelyan
Konstantin Aghaparoni Orbelyan is an Armenian pianist, composer, head of the State Estrada Orchestra of Armenia. People's Artist of USSR , Union of Soviet Composers Board member, Armenian Composer's Union secretary since 1983, Vice-President of All-Soviet Musical Society of the USSR.-External...
, and Tigran Mansuryan. Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
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 composed eight (completed) symphonies, an opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
and several chamber works
Chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small number of performers with one performer to a part...
.
Several of his symphonies
Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, scored almost always for orchestra. A symphony usually contains at least one movement or episode composed according to the sonata principle...
are recorded, as noted in one of the pages linked. (The date 1973 in the Musicweb review of the Melodiya recording of symphony 3 is probably a typographical error, since the publisher's listing also gives 1975 for the first performance of that work.)
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a major city in the central part of Russia, the administrative center of Sverdlovsk Oblast. Situated on the eastern side of the Ural mountain range, it is the main industrial and cultural center of the Urals Federal District with a population of 1,350,136 , making it Russia's...
's annual music festival is named after him.
List of works
- Cello sonata (premiered 1956)
- First string quartet (in two movements) (1963)
- Symphony No. 1 (in four movements) (1969)
- Symphony No. 2 (in three movements) (1972)
- Symphony No. 3 (in three movements) (1975)
- Symphony No. 4 (in one movement) (1976)
- Symphony No. 5 (in one movement) (1978) (dedicated to Gennady RozhdestvenskyGennady RozhdestvenskyGennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky is a Russian conductor.-Biography:Rozhdestvensky was born in Moscow. His parents were the noted conductor and pedagogue Nikolai Anosov and soprano Natalya Rozhdestvenskaya...
) - Symphony No. 6 (in one movement) (1981)
- Das Erdbeben, operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
1984 (after Heinrich von KleistHeinrich von KleistBernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.- Life :...
) - Symphony No. 7 (in one movement) (1987)
- Symphony No. 8 (in one movement) (1989)
- Second string quartet (1991)
- Symphony No. 9 (1994) incomplete.
Much of his music is available from Sikorski Music Publishers
Hans Sikorski
Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski is an international sheet music publishing company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.The music publishing firm of Hans Sikorski was founded in 1935 and now comprises more than 30 publishers in several European countries and in the USA...
.
As composer
- Poeti veradardze (Return of the Poet, 2005)
- Vaveragrogh (Documentarist, 2003)
- Verjin kayan (Last Station, 1994)
- Hin astvatzner (Ancient Gods, 1993)
- Dzayn barbaro... (1991)
- Veradardz avetyats yerkir (Return to the Promised Land, 1991)
- Qamin unaynutyan (Wind of Oblivion, 1990)
- Vrag naroda - Bukharin (Public Enemy Bukharin, 1990)
- Yerazahan (1989)
- Yerevanyan oreri khronikan (Chronicle of Yerevan Days, 1974)