About Avet Ter-Gabrielyan
Lived 1899 – 1983 (aged 83–84). Avet Ter-Gabrielyan was a Russian violinist.
Avet Ter-Gabrielyan (, April 7, 1899 - June 19, 1983) was an Armenian violinist and the founder of the Komitas Quartet. Avet Gabrielyan Music School in Yerevan is named in his honor.
Early life Avet Ter-Gabrielyan was born on April 19, 1899, in Nor Nakhichevan (now Proletarsky District, Rostov-on-Don).
Education He studied violin under Nicholas Averino (father of soprano Olga Averino) in Rostov-on-Don before continuing his studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Lev Tseitlin.
Career In November 1924, Ter-Gabrielyan co-founded Komitas Quartet. He was the quartet's first violin from 1925 to 1976. The ensemble performed with such musicians as Konstantin Igumnov and Heinrich Neuhaus.
Aram Khachaturian dedicated to Ter-Gabrielyan his "Dance" (1933).
From 1929 Ter-Gabrielyan taught at the Moscow Conservatory.
Death Gabrielyan died on June 19, 1983, in Moscow.
Awards 1945: People's Artist of the Armenian SSR
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Armenian violinist
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Avet Ter-Gabrielyan was born on 7 April 1899 in Nakhichevan-on-Don.
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Avet Ter-Gabrielyan died in 1983 in Yerevan.
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