Sar'yan, Lazar' Martirosovich
(*1920)
Sar'yan [Saryán], Lazar' (Ghazar) Martirosovich (9–30–1920, Rostov-on-Don). Armenian comp. and pedagogue. Son of the famous Armenian painter Martiros Sar'yan. Studied at the Yerevan Cons. (1934–38) with Barkhudaryan and Tal'yan, and later at the Gnesin Mus. Sch. with Shebalin. Continued his training with A. N. Aleksandrov , Kabalevsky, and Shostakovich at the M. Cons. In 1950 grad. from the latter and joined the faculty of the Yerevan Cons. His students incl. Mansuryan, Sarkisyan, and…