Sogomon Sogomonian (Komitas) Born: 1869 , Kütahya (Turkey)Died: 1935 , Paris (France)
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Biography
Studied in Ejmiatsin where he was attracted by the Armenian folksongs. Educated doctor in theology in 1896. Continued his musical studies in Berlin (1896-99), then returned to Ejmiatsin. Moved to Contantinople in 1910 where he founded a music school and a choir. Arrested and deported to the interior of Turkey in 1915. Moved to Paris in 1919, where he died in 1935.
<hiemkiank hotmail.com> adds : Komitas was an Armenian composer who became mentally ill because he saw the horrors of the Armenian Genocide which were commited by Turkish Gov. in 1915.
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