Tigran Mansurian

Tigran Mansurjan (Armenian Տիգրան Մանսուրյան; born January 27, 1939 in Beirut ) is an Armenian composer of classical music.

Life and meaning

Tigran Mansurjan attended the State Conservatory in Yerevan, where he studied from 1960 to 1965 composition. Together with Jerwand Jerkanjan (* 1949) and Avet Terterjan ( 1929-1994 ) is one Mansurjan the most important composers of the new Armenian music.

Works

Komitas and Claude Debussy were his spiritual role models. Inspired by the Armenian nature poetry, he developed a sound mysticism related form of composition in which he integrated elements of new music. His compositions range from chamber music works on vocal cycles to symphonic works.

Musical understanding

In his music aesthetics Mansurjan committed to ancestral traditions, but does not see itself as an imitator known styles, but corresponds to old forms and emphases. He is always looking for the internal unity of a work of art and also measures of musical rhetoric in its modern transposition of great importance.