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    Emil Lazarian
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Music: Renowned Armenian composer Gagik Hovunts dies at 89

Panorama, Armenia
Sept 3 2019
Culture 12:39 03/09/2019 Armenia

Famous Armenian composer, Honored Artist of Armenia Gagik Hovunts passed away on 1 September at the age of 89, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport reported.

Born in Yerevan in 1930, he started his musical education at the Yerevan Special Music School after Alexander Spendiaryan. In 1954 Hovunts graduated from the Yerevan State Conservatory, the class of violin with Karp Dombaev, and in 1957 – the class of composition with Grigor Yeghiazaryan. He was a professor of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory since 1984.

His works were performed in Yerevan, Moscow, Petrozavodsk, Odessa, Minsk, Tbilisi, Riga, Tallin, Praha, Donetsk, Paris, Baku, Alma-Ata. He was a member of the Composers’ Union of Armenia. 

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS