Comitas
(1869-1935)
Great Armenian music composer, author of some 4000 songs. Music director
of Theological College of Echmiadzin since1893, he traveled throughout
Armenia to collect and write down the folk songs. He wrote a Mass for
the Armenian Church and conducted concerts in many European countries.
He was about deciphering the ancient Armenian system of musical notation
when he tragically lost reason, anguished by the Armenian Genocide of
1915. He died in a mental hospital in Paris.
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