Komitas vartabed biography

Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonyan - Komitas Vardepet (also Gomidas Vartabed) (September 26 in Kütahya, Ottoman Empire - October 22 , Paris, France), was an Armenianpriest, composer, choir leader, singer, music ethnologist, music teacher and musicologist, known as the founder of modern Armenian classical music.^[1]

He was born into a family whose members were deeply involved in music and were monolingual in Turkish.

His mother died when he was one and ten years later his father died.

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster.

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster.

BIOGRAPHY OF KOMITAS.

Soghomon Soghomonian, ordained and commonly known as Komitas, was an Ottoman-Armenian priest, musicologist, composer, arranger, singer, and choirmaster, who is considered the founder of the Armenian national school of music.

Komitas was an ethnomusicologist and composer who created the basis for a distinctive national musical style in Armenia.

In he became a priest and obtained the title Vardapet (or Vartabed), meaning a priest or a church scholar.

In he became a priest and obtained the title Vardapet (or Vartabed), meaning a priest or a church scholar.

He established and conducted the monastery choir till when he went to Berlin, to the Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm University.

Here he studied music at the private conservatory of Prof. Richard Schmidt. In he acquired the title doctor of musicology and returned to Echmiadzin. He traveled extensively around the country, listening and recording details about Arm