Avet Terterian
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Avet Terterian (also Alfred Roubenovich Terterian or Terteryan) (July 29, 1929 in Baku, Azerbaijan – December 11, 1994 in Yekaterinburg, Russia) was a prominent Armenian composer, awarded by Konrad Adenauer prize [1]. He was a friend and colleague of Giya Kancheli. [2]
He composed eight (completed) symphonies, an opera and several chamber works.
Several of his symphonies are recorded, as noted in one of the pages linked. (The date 1973 in the Musicweb review of the Melodiya recording of symphony 3 is probably a typographical error, since the publisher's listing also gives 1975 for the first performance of that work.)
Yekaterinburg's annual music festival is named after him.
[edit] List of works
- Cello sonata (premiered 1956)
- First string quartet (in two movements) (1963)
- Symphony No. 1 (in four movements) (1969)
- Symphony No. 2 (in three movements) (1972)
- Symphony No. 3 (in three movements) (1975)
- Symphony No. 4 (in one movement) (1976)
- Symphony No. 5 (in one movement) (1978) (dedicated to Gennady Rozhdestvensky)
- Symphony No. 6 (in one movement) (1981)
- Das Erdbeben, opera 1984 (after Heinrich von Kleist)
- Symphony No. 7 (in one movement) (1987)
- Symphony No. 8 (in one movement) (1989)
- Second string quartet (1991)
- Symphony No. 9 (1994) incomplete.
Much of his music is available from Sikorski.
[edit] References
- ^ [1]Петр Поспелов, "Не надо преувеличивать свое значение на этой земле", Коммерсантъ-Daily, 16.12.1994 г.
