About Robert Atayan
Lived 1915 – 1994 (aged 78). Robert Atayan was an Iranian, Russian and Armenian composer, musicologist, folklorist and music educator.
Robert Arshaki Atayan (; 7 (20) November 19154 March 1994) was an Armenian musicologist and composer.
He was born in Tehran, Iran and later moved to Soviet Armenia. He completed the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1941 and since 1944 taught there. He authored several important works on the Armenian system of musical notation called khaz. He spent almost thirty years researching Komitas's work and was the main editor of the Collected Works of Komitas in fourteen volumes (Yerevan, 1960–2006). He is recognized as the foremost authority of Komitas's art.
Atayan died in Los Angeles. He was buried in Yerevan.
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Who was Robert Atayan?
Armenian musicologist
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Robert Atayan was born on 20 November 1915 in Tehran.
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Robert Atayan died on 5 March 1994 in Los Angeles.
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Robert Atayan was a composer, musicologist, folklorist and music educator.
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Robert Atayan was Iranian, Russian and Armenian.
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