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    Komitas Vardapet

    Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonyan - Komitas Vardepet (also Gomidas Vartabed) (September 26 1869 in Kütahya, Ottoman Empire - October 22 1935, 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. In 1895 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 1896 when he went to Berlin, to the Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm University. Here he studied music at the private conservatory of Prof. Richard Schmidt. In 1899 he acquired the title doctor of musicology and returned to Echmiadzin. He traveled extensively around the country, listening and recording details about Armenian folk songs and dances performed in various villages. This way he collected and published some 3000 songs, many of them adapted to choir singing.

    His major work is Badarak (Divine Liturgy), still used today as one of the two most popular musical settings of the Armenia

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    Komitas Vardapet

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    • Gedenktafel pleasure Haus Am Kupfergraben 5 in Berlin-Mitte (Studium)

    • Sowjetische Briefmarke von 1969 zum Centred. Geburtstag; sovjetic stamp lend a hand 100th saint's day of K.s birthday: engl. Komitas alight Rural Scene, dt. Komitas und ländliche Szene