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Alan Hovhaness
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1911-03-08
- Active to
- 2000-06-21
classicalcomposercontemporary classicalmodern classicalsymphony
Discography
- Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain / Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite / Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss Divertimento1958
- Ballet Mécanique / Toccata For Percussion / October Mountain / Sketch For Percussion1959
- Music Of Alan Hovhaness (1963)1963
- Koke No Niwa "Moss Garden" / Chamber Cantata On Chinese Poems / Four Scenes For Piano / Sonata For Violin And Piano1964
- Lousadzak: Concerto No. 1 For Piano And String Orchestra, Op. 48 / Concerto No. 2 For Violin And String Orchestra, Op. 89a1966
- Quintet For Piano & Strings / Khaldis: Concerto For Piano, Four Trumpets & Percussion1966
- Music of Alan Hovhaness1985
- Symphony no. 9, op. 180 "Saint Vartan Symphony" / "Artik", Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra1986
- Majnun Symphony1987
- Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale / The Fairy's Kiss: Divertimento / Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain1987
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Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation. The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alan
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Somerville
- Place of death
- Seattle
- Occupation
- organist
- Employer
- Eastman School of Music
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Student of
- Bohuslav Martinů
- Genre
- opera
- Instrument
- veena
- Official website
- hovhaness.com
- Residence
- Boston
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- Commons category
- Alan Hovhaness
- archives at
- Library of Congress
- date of birth
- 1911-03-08
- date of death
- 2000-06-21
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Letters
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
- student
- Sam Rivers
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Alan Hovhaness
- ethnic group
- Armenians
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