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Portrait of Aram Khachaturian by Paul Helm
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- Monument for Khachaturian in Moscow
[posted 1 November 2006]In the presence of Lyudmila Putin, the wife of the Russian president, Robert Kocharyan, Armenia's president and Yuri Luzhkov, the mayor of Moscow, a bronze monument was unveiled of Russian-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian.
The statue stands in the public garden near the House of Composers in Bryusov Lane, Moscow, not far from the place where the composer lived. The monument to Khachaturian was opened during the Year of Armenia in Russia.
[Source: www.tass.ru]
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Life
Khachaturian was an Armenian composer, the son of a poor family living in the Russian (Soviet) state of Georgia.
His wife Nina Makarova was also a composer.
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5 July 1937: Premiere of piano concerto in D flat major, in St. Petersburg, Russia.
9 December 1942: Premiere of Gayane, in Molotov, Russia.
30 December 1942: Premiere of Symphony no. 2 in a minor, in Moscow, USA.
30 October 1946: Premiere of cello concerto, in Moscow, Russia.
3 November 1962: Premiere of violin concerto, in Moscow, Russia.
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