Spendiarov, Aleksandr Afanas'yevich

Spendiarov [Spindeeáruhff] (Spendiaryan), Aleksandr Afanas'yevich (10–20/11–1–1871, Kakhovka; 5–7–1928, Yerevan). Armenian cond., pedagogue, and comp. Studied comp. with Klenovsky (1892–94) and N. Rimsky-Korsakov (1896–1900) and grad. 1895 from the law dept. of M. Univ. Was a cond. in the Crimea, then settled in Yerevan (1924), where he organized the orch. class at the Yerevan Cons. and, with Komitas , helped to establ. an Armenian national school. Among his students were Aivazyan, Chemberdzhi…