Tigran Mansuryan

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Tigran Mansuryan
Birth_name = Tigran Mansuryan
Born = birth date|1939|27|1 Beirut, Lebanon
Occupation = Composer

Tigran Mansuryan (Armenian: Տիգրան Մանսուրյան; Russian: Тигран Мансурян,) (January 27 1937 ) is a Lebanese-born Armenian composer Armenian composer famous for his orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works, as well as a number of movie soundtracks.

Biography

Tigran Mansuryan was born in Beirut, Lebanon, but later moved to Armenia in 1947, settling in Yerevan in 1956. He studied composition with Edvard Bagdasaryan at the Romanos Melikian College of Music in Yerevan from 1956 to 1960 and with Lazarus Saryan at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory from 1960 to 1965, with whom he also had post-graduate studies there from 1965 to 1967. Tigran Mansuryan taught modern music theory at the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory from 1967 to 1986, composition since 1987 and from 1992 to 1995 he was the director of the same conservatory.

Recently he left the teaching career and now concentrates on composition.

List of works

STAGE
*The Ice Queen (2 act ballet, scenario by Vilen Galstyan, after Hans Christian Andersen), 1989

ORCHESTRAL
*Concerto, organ, small orchestra, 1964
*Partita, large orchestra, 1965
*Music for Twelve Strings, 1966
*Preludes, large orchestra, 1975
*To the Memory of Dmitry Shostakovich (concerto no. 1), cello, large orchestra, 1976
*Canonical Ode, 4 harps, organ, 2 string orchestras, 1977
*Concerto No. 2, cello, string orchestra, 1978
*Double Concerto, violin, cello, string orchestra, 1978
*Tovem, small orchestra (15 players), 1979
*Nachtmusik, large orchestra, 1980
*Because I Do Not Hope (in memoriam Igor Stravinsky), small orchestra (15 players), 1981
*Concerto, violin, string orchestra, 1981
*Concerto No. 3, cello, small orchestra (2 flutes, oboe, English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, 2 French horns, trumpet, trombone), 1983
*Postludio Concerto, clarinet, cello, string orchestra, 1993 (version of chamber work)
*Concerto, viola, 18 strings, 1995; Fantasy, piano, string orchestra, 2003

CHAMBER MUSIC
*Sonata, viola, piano, 1962
*Sonata, flute, piano, 1963
*Sonata No. 1, violin, piano, 1964
*Allegro barbaro, cello, 1964
*Sonata No. 2, violin, piano, 1965
*Piano Trio, violin, cello, piano, 1965
*Psalm, 2 flutes, violin, 1966
*Interior, string quartet, 1972
*Silhouette of a Bird, harpsichord, percussion, 1971-73
*Sonata No. 1, cello, piano, 1973
*Sonata No. 2, cello, piano, 1974
*Wind Quintet, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 1974
*The Rhetorician, flute, violin, double bass, harpsichord, 1978
*Capriccio, cello, 1981
*String Quartet No. 1, 1983-84
*String Quartet No. 2, 1984
*Five Bagatelles, violin, cello, piano, 1985; Tombeau, cello, percussion, 1988; Postludio, clarinet, cello, 1991-92 (also version as Postludio Concerto)
*String Quartet No. 3, 1993
*Concerto, English horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, 1995
*Hommage à Anna Akhmatova, bass clarinet, qanun (zither), viola, marimba, 1997
*Duo, viola, percussion, 1998
*Dance, viola, percussion, 1998
*Lacrimae, soprano saxophone, viola, 1999
*Lamento, violin, 2002 (also version for viola, 2002)
*Three Medieval Taghs, viola, percussion, 1998-2004

CHORAL
*Three Poems (text by Kostan Zaryan), mixed chorus, 1969
*Spring Songs (text by Hovhannis Tumanyan), mixed chorus, 1996
*Confessing with Faith (text by St. Nerses Shnorhali), 4 male voices, viola, 1998
*Ars Poetica (concerto, text by Yeghishe Charents), mixed chorus, 1996-2000
*Motet (text by Grigor Narekatsi), 2 mixed choruses, 2000
*On the Shores of Eternity (text by Avetik Isahakyan), mixed chorus, 2003

VOCAL
*Three Romances (text by Federico García Lorca [translated by Hamo Sahyan] ), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1966
*Four Hayrens (text by Nahapet Kuchak), mezzo-soprano, piano, 1967
*Intermezzo (text by Vladimir Holan), soprano, ensemble, 1972-73 (lost)
*I am Giving You a Rose (text by Matevos Sarifyan), soprano, flute, cello, piano, 1974
*Three Nairian Songs (text by Vahan Teryan), baritone, large orchestra, 1975-76
*Three Madrigals (text by Razmik Davoyan), soprano, flute, cello, piano, 1974-81
*Sunset Songs (song-cycle, text by Hamo Sahyan), soprano, piano, 1984-85
*The Land of Nairi (song-cycle, text by Vahan Teryan), soprano, piano, 1986
*Miserere (texts by St. Mesrop Mashtots, the Bible [Armenian translation] ), soprano, string orchestra, 1989
*Madrigal IV (text by Alicia Kirakosyan), soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, tubular bells, 1991

PIANO
*Sonatina No. 1, 1963
*Petite Suite, 1963
*Sonata No. 1, 1967
*Miniatures, 1969
*Three Pieces, 1970-71
*Nostalgia, 1976
*Three Pieces for the Low Keys, 1979
*Sonatina No. 2, 1987

FILM SCORES (DIRECTOR)
*The_Color_of_Pomegranates, 1968 (Sergei Parajanov)
*We and Our Mountains, 1969 (Henrik Malyan)
*Osenneye solntse – Autumn Sun, 1979 (Bagrat Oganesyan)
*Legend of the Clown, 1979 (Levon Asatryan)

External links

* [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Tigran_Mansuryan Article about Tigran Mansuryan on Armeniapedia]
* [http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/mansuriant.htm Tigran Mansuryan - The leaving composers page]