- Grikor Suni
Grikor Mirzaian Suni (Armenian unicode|Գրիգոր Միրզայեան Սիւնի) (originally Grikor Mirzaian, given name also transliterated as Grigor) (
September 10 ,1876 , Getabek (nowGadabay ), at the time a village inElisabethpol Governorate of the Russian empire, now part ofAzerbaijan –December 18 ,1939 ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an Armeniancomposer .The music he wrote—choral works, songs, several operas, and orchestral and instrumental works—is
European classical music , but suffused with the tradition of Armenianfolk music andreligious music , of which he was an avid collector and registrator.Originating from a line of musicians, he studied music from 1891 to 1895 at the Gevorgian Academy in
Echmiadzin , nearYerevan , with Soghomon Soghomonian (later known as Komitas Vardapet), with whom he became friends and a long-time collaborator. Then he moved toSt. Petersburg , where he studied music from 1895 to 1904 withNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov ,Alexander Glazunov and Anatoly Lyadov.Ronald Grigor Suny , Emeritus Professor of political science at the University of Chicago, is a grandson of Grikor Mirzaian Suni.External links
* [http://www.suniproject.org The Suni Project]
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