Andrea Bocelli - Besame Mucho

ARMENIAN Gevorg Artashesovich (b. 5 I 1920, Tbilisi) - Soviet composer. Failed activist Arts Arm. SSR (1965). Ch. CPSU since 1943. In 1953 he graduated from the Yerevan Conservatory with G. Ye. Yeghiazaryan, in 1958 - graduate school at Leningrad. conservatory at B. A. Arapov. In his work A. relies on the rural and urban nat. folklore. Its proizv. different monumentality, dram. pathos. The author of the operas Khachatur Abovyan (1960, Yerevan), The Crash (Khortakum, 1968, ibid. ), Symph. fairy tales-ballet “Brave Nazar” (“Kach Nazar”, 1981), cantatas “The Legend of Armenia” (“Ask Hayastani Masin”, 1951) and “Communists” (1976), symph. suites “At the exhibition of the artist V. Sureniants” (“Vardges Surenantsi patkerasraum”, 1963), a concert for flute and orchestra (1954), plays for decomp. instruments, including for folk; choirs a cappella, romances (c. 30), songs, including wok. the Chime series (Goganjner, 1978); music for films, etc. Since 1958 he has been teaching at the Yerevan Conservatory (since 1977 assistant professor).