Alan Hovhaness
Personal details
- Citizenship or similar
- American, Armenian
- Birth
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March 8, 1911
[O.S. February 23, 1911]
Somerville, United States - Death
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June 21, 2000
Seattle, United States
Note on calendars, O.S. and N.S.
Male
Names in other languages
- hu: Alan Hovhaness
- ru: Алан Хованесс
- hy: Ալան Հովհաննես
Professional details
- Era
- 20th century
- Instrument
- piano, sitar, veena
Works
- Chahagir
- Floating World - Ukiyo
- Harpsonate
- Hear my prayer, O Lord
- Lousadzak
- Prelude en fuga nr. 1
- Psalm and Fugue No. 2
- Saint Vartan Symphony
- Symphony No. 1
- Symphony No. 22
- Symphony No. 3
- Symphony No. 4
- Symphony No. 50
- Symphony No. 6
- Symphony No. 60
- Symphony No. 63
- Symphony No. 66
- Talin
- The Burning House
- The Flowering Peach
- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám
Relations
- Father
- Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian
- Studied under
- Bohuslav Martinů, Frederick Converse, Gigi Gryce, Heinrich Gebhard, Leo Rich Lewis
- Notable students
- Sam Rivers