Melikyan, Romanos Ovakimovich
(1883–1935)
Melikyan [Mileekyán], Romanos Ovakimovich (9–19/10–1–1883, Kizlyar [now Dagestan Autonomous Republic]; 3–30–1935, Yerevan). Armenian choral cond., pedagogue, and comp. Grad. 1905 from the Mus. Sch. of the RMS in Rostov-on-Don, then studied with Ippolitov-Ivanov, S. I. Taneyev, and Yavorsky in M. (1905–7). Completed his training under Kalafati, M. Shteinberg , and Vītols at the P. Cons. (1910–14). In 1921 establ. a music studio in Yerevan that in 1923 became the Yerevan Cons. Also was the first…