Yegiazaryan, Grigory Yegizarovich

Yegiazaryan [Yigeeuhzaryán] (Eghiazaryan, Egiazaryan), Grigory Yegizarovich (12–8–1908, Blur, Turkey). Armenian comp. Grad. 1935 from the M. Cons., where he was a pupil of Glier and Myaskovsky. Settled in Yerevan in 1938, taught at the Cons. there, and was its director from 1954–60. His students incl. Adzhemyan , Chitchyan, Izraelyan, Khagagortyan, Ovunts, Sakoyan, and Zograbyan. As a comp., cultivates a delicate, sometimes impressionistic style, with national elements such as the Armenian…