Terteryan, Avet Rubenovich
(*1929)
Terteryan [Tirtiryán], Avet (Al'fred) Rubenovich (7–29–1929, Baku). Armenian comp. and pedagogue. Grad. 1957 from the Yerevan Cons., where he was a pupil of E. Mirzoyan (comp.) and Sar'yan (orchestration). Did postgrad. work there in 1967, then joined its faculty (1970). As a comp., fuses a variety of styles, incl. ancient monodic forms, free dodecaphony, sonorism, and aleatory (as in Sym. Nos. 2 and 3). Sometimes employs traditional instruments, such as the duduk, zurna, and kyamancha (an…