Yekmalyan, Makar Grigor'yevich
(1856–1905)
Yekmalyan [Yikmalyán] (Ekmalyan), Makar Grigor'yevich (1–21/2–2–1856, Vagharshapat [Echmiadzin]; 3–6/19–1905, Tbilisi). Armenian choral cond., pedagogue, and comp. Following grad. from a theological seminary, attended the P. Cons. (1879–88), where he was a pupil of N. Rimsky-Korsakov and became the first Armenian comp. to receive a professional education at a Russian Cons. Also was a friend of A. Rubinshtein , Balakirev, and A. K. Lyadov, who infl. his comp. style. In 1891 settled in Tbilisi…