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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="كوميتاس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="كوميتاس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%BD_%D5%8E%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%BF" title="Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Камітас – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Камітас" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Комитас – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Комитас" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Vardapet" title="Komitas Vardapet – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Komitas Vardapet" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%82" title="Κομιτάς – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κομιτάς" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Vardapet" title="Komitas Vardapet – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Komitas Vardapet" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Vardapet" title="Komitas Vardapet – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Komitas Vardapet" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%AA" title="کومیتاس وارداپت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کومیتاس وارداپت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%BD" title="Կոմիտաս – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Կոմիտաս" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%B8" title="को कोमिटस – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="को कोमिटस" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padre_Komitas" title="Padre Komitas – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Padre Komitas" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%98%D7%90%D7%A1" title="קומיטאס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קומיטאס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9B%E1%83%98%E1%83%A2%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98" title="კომიტასი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კომიტასი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Комитас – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Комитас" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Vardapet" title="Komitas Vardapet – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Komitas Vardapet" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitasz" title="Komitasz – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Komitasz" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="كوميتاس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كوميتاس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D9%88%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="کومیتاس – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="کومیتاس" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Wardapet" title="Komitas Wardapet – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Komitas Wardapet" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Vardapet" title="Komitas Vardapet – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Komitas Vardapet" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Комитас – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Комитас" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Vardapet" title="Komitas Vardapet – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Komitas Vardapet" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AA%D9%88%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B3" title="ڪوميتاس – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="ڪوميتاس" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas" title="Komitas – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Komitas" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komitas_Vardapet" title="Komitas Vardapet – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Komitas Vardapet" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%81" title="Комитас – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Комитас" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" 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.infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Komitas</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Vardapet" title="Vardapet">Vardapet</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="nickname" lang="hy">Կոմիտաս</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Komitas_1902.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Komitas_1902.jpg/250px-Komitas_1902.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Komitas_1902.jpg/375px-Komitas_1902.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Komitas_1902.jpg 2x" data-file-width="389" data-file-height="458" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Komitas in 1901<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200146_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200146-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 1902<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Soghomon Soghomonian</div><br />8 October [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> 26 September] 1869<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/K%C3%BCtahya" title="Kütahya">Kütahya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">22 October 1935<span style="display:none">(1935-10-22)</span> (aged 66)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Paris, <a href="/wiki/French_Third_Republic" title="French Third Republic">France</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Komitas_Pantheon" title="Komitas Pantheon">Komitas Pantheon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Gevorgian_Seminary" title="Gevorgian Seminary">Gevorgian Seminary</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin" title="Humboldt University of Berlin">Frederick William University</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Musicologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Musicologist">Musicologist</a>, composer, <a href="/wiki/Choirmaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Choirmaster">choirmaster</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1891–1915</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://komitasmuseum.am">komitasmuseum.am</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span class="infobox-signature skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Komitas_signature.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Komitas_signature.png/150px-Komitas_signature.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Komitas_signature.png/225px-Komitas_signature.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Komitas_signature.png/300px-Komitas_signature.png 2x" data-file-width="474" data-file-height="436" /></a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><audio id="mwe_player_0" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="235" style="width:235px;" data-durationhint="130" data-mwtitle="Mokats_Mirza.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Mokats_Mirza.ogg"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Mokats_Mirza.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/Mokats_Mirza.ogg/Mokats_Mirza.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span><figcaption>Komitas singing Mokats Mirza.</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Soghomon Soghomonian</b>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>A<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ordination" title="Ordination">ordained</a> and commonly known as <b>Komitas</b><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>B<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Armenian_language" title="Armenian language">Armenian</a>: <span lang="hy">Կոմիտաս</span>; 8 October [<a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">O.S.</a> 26 September] 1869 – 22 October 1935), was an <a href="/wiki/Armenians_in_the_Ottoman_Empire" title="Armenians in the Ottoman Empire">Ottoman-Armenian</a> priest, <a href="/wiki/Musicologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Musicologist">musicologist</a>, composer, arranger, singer, and <a href="/wiki/Choirmaster" class="mw-redirect" title="Choirmaster">choirmaster</a>, who is considered the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Armenia" title="Music of Armenia">Armenian national school of music</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-britannica_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britannica-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is recognized as one of the pioneers of <a href="/wiki/Ethnomusicology" title="Ethnomusicology">ethnomusicology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPoladian1972_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPoladian1972-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Orphaned at a young age, Komitas was taken to <a href="/wiki/Etchmiadzin_Cathedral" title="Etchmiadzin Cathedral">Etchmiadzin</a>, Armenia's religious center, where he received education at the <a href="/wiki/Gevorgian_Seminary" title="Gevorgian Seminary">Gevorgian Seminary</a>. Following his ordination as <a href="/wiki/Vardapet" title="Vardapet">vardapet</a> (celibate priest) in 1895, he studied music at the <a href="/wiki/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin" title="Humboldt University of Berlin">Frederick William University</a> in Berlin. He thereafter "used his Western training to build a national tradition".<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He collected and transcribed over 3,000 pieces of Armenian folk music, more than half of which were subsequently lost and only around 1,200 are now extant. Besides Armenian folk songs, he also showed interest in other cultures and in 1903 published the first-ever collection of <a href="/wiki/Kurdish_music" title="Kurdish music">Kurdish folk songs</a> titled <i><a href="/wiki/Kurdish_melodies" title="Kurdish melodies">Kurdish melodies</a></i>. His choir presented Armenian music in many European cities, earning the praise of <a href="/wiki/Claude_Debussy" title="Claude Debussy">Claude Debussy</a>, among others. Komitas settled in Constantinople in 1910 to escape mistreatment by ultra-conservative clergymen at Etchmiadzin and to introduce Armenian folk music to wider audiences. He was widely embraced by Armenian communities, while <a href="/wiki/Arshag_Chobanian" title="Arshag Chobanian">Arshag Chobanian</a> called him the "savior of Armenian music".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200151_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200151-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a>—along with hundreds of other Armenian intellectuals—Komitas was <a href="/wiki/Deportation_of_Armenian_intellectuals_on_24_April_1915" title="Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915">arrested and deported</a> to a <a href="/wiki/Internment" title="Internment">prison camp</a> in April 1915 by the Ottoman government. He was soon released under unclear circumstances and, having witnessed indiscriminate cruelty and relentless massacres of other Armenians by the Ottoman Turks, Komitas experienced a mental breakdown and developed a severe case of <a href="/wiki/Post-traumatic_stress_disorder" title="Post-traumatic stress disorder">post-traumatic stress disorder</a> (PTSD). The widespread hostile environment in Constantinople and reports of mass-scale Armenian death marches and massacres that reached him further worsened his fragile mental state. He was first placed in a Turkish military-operated hospital until 1919 and then transferred to <a href="/wiki/Psychiatric_hospital" title="Psychiatric hospital">psychiatric hospitals</a> in Paris, where he spent the last years of his life in agony. Komitas is widely seen as a martyr of the genocide and has been depicted as one of the main symbols of the Armenian Genocide in art.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Collection of Works of the Composer Komitas Vardapet is included to UNESCO <a href="/wiki/Memory_of_the_World" class="mw-redirect" title="Memory of the World">Memory of the World</a> Register. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Childhood_(1869–81)"><span id="Childhood_.281869.E2.80.9381.29"></span>Childhood (1869–81)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Childhood (1869–81)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Komitas was born <b>Soghomon Soghomonian</b> in <a href="/wiki/K%C3%BCtahya" title="Kütahya">Kütahya</a>, <a href="/wiki/H%C3%BCdavendig%C3%A2r_Vilayet" class="mw-redirect" title="Hüdavendigâr Vilayet">Hüdavendigâr (Bursa) Vilayet</a>, Ottoman Empire on 26 September (8 October in <a href="/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates" title="Old Style and New Style dates">New Style</a>) 1869 to Armenian parents Kevork and Takuhi.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to his autobiographical sketches, his parents' ancestors moved to western <a href="/wiki/Anatolia" title="Anatolia">Anatolia</a> from the <a href="/wiki/%C3%87%C9%99nn%C9%99b" title="Çənnəb">Tsghna</a> village in <a href="/wiki/Nakhchivan_Autonomous_Republic" title="Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic">Nakhichevan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Goghtn" title="Goghtn">Goghtn</a> province at the turn of the century. His family only spoke <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a> due to restrictions by the Ottoman government. Soghomon was their only child. He was baptized three days after his birth. His mother was originally from <a href="/wiki/Bursa" title="Bursa">Bursa</a> and was sixteen at the time of his birth. People who knew her described her as melancholic, while his father was a cheerful person; but both were interested in music. She died in March 1870, just six months after giving birth to him. Her death left deep scars on him, whose earliest poems were devoted to her. Thereafter, according to different sources, either his father's sister-in-law or his paternal grandmother, Mariam, looked after him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200110–12_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200110–12-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1880, four years after he finished primary school in Kütahya, Soghomon was sent by his father to <a href="/wiki/Bursa" title="Bursa">Bursa</a> to continue his education. He possibly stayed with his maternal grandparents who lived in the city. He was sent back to Kütahya four months later, following the death of his father who had become an alcoholic. Although Soghomon was adopted by his paternal uncle Harutyun, his "familiar and social structure had collapsed." A childhood friend described him as "virtually homeless." He was completely deprived of paternal care and was "placed in circumstances that made him vulnerable to the mental illness he suffered later in life".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200115–16_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200115–16-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etchmiadzin_(1881–95)"><span id="Etchmiadzin_.281881.E2.80.9395.29"></span>Etchmiadzin (1881–95)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Etchmiadzin (1881–95)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:448px;max-width:448px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:242px;max-width:242px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Etchmiadzin_Cathedral_1901_Lynch_(edit).png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Etchmiadzin_Cathedral_1901_Lynch_%28edit%29.png/240px-Etchmiadzin_Cathedral_1901_Lynch_%28edit%29.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Etchmiadzin_Cathedral_1901_Lynch_%28edit%29.png/360px-Etchmiadzin_Cathedral_1901_Lynch_%28edit%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Etchmiadzin_Cathedral_1901_Lynch_%28edit%29.png/480px-Etchmiadzin_Cathedral_1901_Lynch_%28edit%29.png 2x" data-file-width="1394" data-file-height="1257" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Etchmiadzin_Cathedral" title="Etchmiadzin Cathedral">Etchmiadzin Cathedral</a> (1890s)</div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:202px;max-width:202px"><div class="thumbimage"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Svet._Caucasus._048._Armenian_academy_in_Echmiadzin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Svet._Caucasus._048._Armenian_academy_in_Echmiadzin.jpg/200px-Svet._Caucasus._048._Armenian_academy_in_Echmiadzin.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Svet._Caucasus._048._Armenian_academy_in_Echmiadzin.jpg/300px-Svet._Caucasus._048._Armenian_academy_in_Echmiadzin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Svet._Caucasus._048._Armenian_academy_in_Echmiadzin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="343" data-file-height="370" /></a></span></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Gevorgian_Seminary" title="Gevorgian Seminary">Gevorgian Seminary</a> (1910)</div></div></div></div></div> <p>His life took a radical turn in the fall of 1881. In September, the twelve-year-old Soghomon was taken to Etchmiadzin by Kevork Vartabed Tertsagyan, the local Armenian bishop, who was asked by the <a href="/wiki/Mother_See_of_Holy_Etchmiadzin" title="Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin">Holy See of Etchmiadzin</a> to find an orphan boy with good singing voice to be enrolled in the prestigious <a href="/wiki/Gevorgian_Seminary" title="Gevorgian Seminary">Gevorgian Seminary</a>. On 1 October 1881, Komitas was introduced to <a href="/wiki/Catholicos_of_All_Armenians" title="Catholicos of All Armenians">Catholicos</a> Gevorg IV, who was disappointed with his lack of knowledge of Armenian, but was so impressed with his singing talent that he often asked Komitas to sing for visitors. After an unfortunate childhood, Komitas found "emotional and intellectual stability" in the seminary.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200121–24_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200121–24-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Between 1881 and 1910, Komitas was mainly based in Etchmiadzin, although he did spend a significant time in Europe.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMooradian196961_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMooradian196961-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his first year at the seminary, Komitas learned the Armenian music notation (<a href="/wiki/Khaz_(notation)" title="Khaz (notation)">khaz</a>) system based on ancient <a href="/wiki/Neume" title="Neume">neumes</a> developed earlier in the 19th century by <a href="/wiki/Hampartsoum_Limondjian" title="Hampartsoum Limondjian">Hampartsoum Limondjian</a> and his students. He gradually discovered a great passion for music and started writing down songs sung by Armenian villagers near Etchmiadzin, who affectionately called him "Notaji Vardapet", meaning "the note-taking priest".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200128_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200128-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the early 1890s, Komitas made his first attempts to write music for the poems of <a href="/wiki/Khachatur_Abovian" title="Khachatur Abovian">Khachatur Abovian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hovhannes_Hovhannisyan_(poet)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hovhannes Hovhannisyan (poet)">Hovhannes Hovhannisyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Avetik_Isahakyan" title="Avetik Isahakyan">Avetik Isahakyan</a> (his younger classmate) and others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1891, the <i>Ararat</i> magazine (the Holy See's official newspaper) published his "National Anthem" (Ազգային Օրհներգ, lyrics by seminary student A. Tashjian) for polyphonic choirs. He finished the seminary in 1893, became a music teacher and was appointed the choirmaster of the <a href="/wiki/Etchmiadzin_Cathedral" title="Etchmiadzin Cathedral">Etchmiadzin Cathedral</a>, Armenia's mother church.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Adalian_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adalian-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>His earliest major influence was <a href="/wiki/Kristapor_Kara-Murza" title="Kristapor Kara-Murza">Kristapor Kara-Murza</a>, who taught at the seminary only one year, in 1892. Kara-Murza composed and organized performances of European music for schoolchildren throughout Armenian-populated areas for educational purposes. And although Komitas criticized his works as not authentically Armenian, Kara-Murza was the person who taught Komitas the polyphonic choral structure around which he built his musical achievements.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200129–30_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200129–30-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1894, Soghomon was ordained <a href="/wiki/Hieromonk" title="Hieromonk">hieromonk</a> (կուսակրոն աբեղա) and given the name of the 7th-century poet and musician <a href="/wiki/Catholicos_of_All_Armenians" title="Catholicos of All Armenians">Catholicos</a> <a href="/wiki/Komitas_(Catholicos)" class="mw-redirect" title="Komitas (Catholicos)">Komitas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 1895,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200132_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200132-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was ordained <a href="/wiki/Vardapet" title="Vardapet">vardapet</a> (celibate priest) and became thereafter known as Komitas Vardapet.<sup id="cite_ref-Adalian_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adalian-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same year, his first collection of transcribed folk music, "The Songs of Agn" (Շար Ակնա ժողովրդական երգերի), was completed, which included 25 pieces of love songs, wedding tunes, lullabies and dances. It was disapproved by a reactionary and ultraconservative faction of the Etchmiadzin clergy, who harassed and sarcastically referred to Komitas as "the love-singing priest". Rumors of alleged sexual misconduct were spread, leading Komitas into experiencing an <a href="/wiki/Identity_crisis" title="Identity crisis">identity crisis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200133_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200133-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tiflis_and_Berlin_(1895–1899)"><span id="Tiflis_and_Berlin_.281895.E2.80.931899.29"></span>Tiflis and Berlin (1895–1899)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Tiflis and Berlin (1895–1899)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg/290px-Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg/435px-Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg/580px-Berlin_Universit%C3%A4t_um_1900.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3531" data-file-height="2511" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin" title="Humboldt University of Berlin">Frederick William University</a>, c. 1900</figcaption></figure> <p>In October 1895, Komitas left Etchmiadzin for <a href="/wiki/Tiflis" class="mw-redirect" title="Tiflis">Tiflis</a> to study <a href="/wiki/Harmony" title="Harmony">harmony</a> under composer <a href="/wiki/Makar_Yekmalyan" title="Makar Yekmalyan">Makar Yekmalyan</a>, whose polyphonic rendering of Armenian liturgy is the most widely used and who became one of Komitas's most influential teachers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, Tiflis was the most suitable option for Komitas as it was both relatively close to the Armenian lands and had a <a href="/wiki/Rectory" class="mw-redirect" title="Rectory">rectory</a>, where he could stay. The six months Komitas spent with Yekmalyan deepened his understanding of European harmonic principles and laid the groundwork for his further education in European conservatories. As Komitas prepared for entrance exams, the wealthy Armenian oil explorer <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Mantashev" title="Alexander Mantashev">Alexander Mantashev</a> agreed to pay 1,800 <a href="/wiki/Russian_ruble" title="Russian ruble">rubles</a> for his three-year tuition at the request of Catholicos <a href="/wiki/Mkrtich_Khrimian" title="Mkrtich Khrimian">Mkrtich Khrimian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200133–34_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200133–34-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Komitas arrived in <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> in early June 1896 without having been accepted by any university. A group of Armenian friends helped him to find an apartment. He initially took private lessons with Richard Schmidt for a few months. Afterwards, he was accepted into the prestigious <a href="/wiki/Humboldt_University_of_Berlin" title="Humboldt University of Berlin">Frederick William University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200139–40_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200139–40-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With little left of Mantashev's money after paying for rent and supplies, Komitas cut on food, having one or no meal each day.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200141_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200141-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, this did not distract him from education and he effectively absorbed the erudition of highly accomplished German teachers. Among them were 18th–19th century folk music specialist <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Bellermann" title="Heinrich Bellermann">Heinrich Bellermann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Max_Friedlaender_(musicologist)" title="Max Friedlaender (musicologist)">Max Friedlaender</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oskar_Fleischer" title="Oskar Fleischer">Oskar Fleischer</a>. Fleischer in May 1899 established the Berlin chapter of the International Musical Society (German: <i lang="de">Internationalen Musikgesellschaft</i>), of which Komitas became an active member. He lectured there on Armenian folk music and suggested that it dated back to pre-Christian, pagan times. His studies at the university ended in July 1899.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200143–44_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200143–44-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Main_period_of_work_(1899–1910)"><span id="Main_period_of_work_.281899.E2.80.931910.29"></span>Main period of work (1899–1910)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Main period of work (1899–1910)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Upon his return to Etchmiadzin in September 1899, Komitas resumed teaching and composing. He assembled and trained a large polyphonic choir based on his acquired knowledge. Until 1906, he directed the Gevorgian Seminary choir.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200144,_46_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200144,_46-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was in this period when he completed "most of the theoretical and research papers that earned him his place among the pioneers of ethnomusicology." Komitas spent summers in Armenian countryside, developing a unique relationship with villagers. He thus took the scholarly task of transcribing and preserving rural Armenian songs. In the fall of 1903 after three years of collection and transcription, Komitas published a collection of 50 folks songs titled "One Thousand and One Songs" (Հազար ու մի խաղ). Lyricist <a href="/wiki/Manuk_Abeghian" class="mw-redirect" title="Manuk Abeghian">Manuk Abeghian</a> helped him to compile the folk pieces. The same collection was reprinted in 1904, while in 1905 a further 50 songs were published.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200147–49_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200147–49-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Constantinople_(1910–15)"><span id="Constantinople_.281910.E2.80.9315.29"></span>Constantinople (1910–15)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Constantinople (1910–15)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Komitas_%22Guzan%22_choir_in_Constantinople,_1910.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Komitas_%22Guzan%22_choir_in_Constantinople%2C_1910.jpg/290px-Komitas_%22Guzan%22_choir_in_Constantinople%2C_1910.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="207" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Komitas_%22Guzan%22_choir_in_Constantinople%2C_1910.jpg/435px-Komitas_%22Guzan%22_choir_in_Constantinople%2C_1910.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Komitas_%22Guzan%22_choir_in_Constantinople%2C_1910.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="357" /></a><figcaption>Komitas's "Gusan" choir in 1910</figcaption></figure> <p>"Seeking to bring appreciation of Armenian music to a wider audience",<sup id="cite_ref-Adalian_22-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adalian-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Komitas moved to Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the Ottoman imperial capital in 1910.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "There he trained a group of students in Armenian melody and formed a choir that toured Armenian communities and gave performances of the folk compositions that Komitas had arranged for four-part choir."<sup id="cite_ref-Adalian_22-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Adalian-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He founded the <i>Gusan</i> choir (<i>Hay gusan</i> since 1912), made up of tens of musicians.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the aim to produce professional musicians, he taught musicology to <a href="/wiki/Barsegh_Kanachyan" class="mw-redirect" title="Barsegh Kanachyan">Barsegh Kanachyan</a>, Mihran Tumacan, Vagharshak Srvandztian and others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539_15-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAtayan1979539-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Deportation_and_final_years_(1915–35)"><span id="Deportation_and_final_years_.281915.E2.80.9335.29"></span>Deportation and final years (1915–35)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Deportation and final years (1915–35)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 24 April 1915, the <a href="/wiki/Deportation_of_Armenian_notables_in_1915" class="mw-redirect" title="Deportation of Armenian notables in 1915">day</a> when the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a> officially began, he was arrested and put on a train the next day together with 180 other Armenian notables and sent to the city of <a href="/wiki/%C3%87ank%C4%B1r%C4%B1" title="Çankırı">Çankırı</a> in northern Central Anatolia, at a distance of some 480 kilometres (300 mi). The Turkish nationalist poet <a href="/wiki/Mehmet_Emin_Yurdakul" title="Mehmet Emin Yurdakul">Mehmet Emin Yurdakul</a>, the writer <a href="/wiki/Halide_Edib_Ad%C4%B1var" title="Halide Edib Adıvar">Halide Edip</a> and U.S. <a href="/wiki/Ambassador_(diplomacy)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambassador (diplomacy)">ambassador</a> <a href="/wiki/Henry_Morgenthau_Sr." title="Henry Morgenthau Sr.">Henry Morgenthau</a> intervened with the government, and by special orders from <a href="/wiki/Talat_Pasha" class="mw-redirect" title="Talat Pasha">Talat Pasha</a>, Komitas was dispatched back to the capital alongside eight other Armenians who had been deported.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Grigoris_Balakian" title="Grigoris Balakian">Grigoris Balakian</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Golgotha" title="Armenian Golgotha">Armenian Golgotha</a></i> offers details of his deportation, during which Komitas suffered tremendously and was afflicted with traumatic neurosis. In one passage Balakian recounts how: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The more we moved away from civilization, the more agitated were our souls and the more our minds were racked with fear. We thought we saw bandits behind every boulder; the hammocks or cradles hanging from every tree seemed like gallows ropes. The expert on Armenian songs, the peerless archimandrite Father Komitas, who was in our carriage, seemed mentally unstable. He thought the trees were bandits on the attack and continually hid his head under the hem of my overcoat, like a fearful partridge. He begged me to say a blessing for him ["The Savior"] in the hope that it would calm him.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In the autumn of 1916, he was taken to a hospital in Constantinople, Hôpital de la paix, and then moved to Paris in 1919, where he died in a <a href="/wiki/Psychiatric_clinic" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychiatric clinic">psychiatric clinic</a> in <a href="/wiki/Villejuif" title="Villejuif">Villejuif</a> in 1935. Next year, his ashes were transferred to <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a> and buried in the <a href="/wiki/Komitas_Pantheon" title="Komitas Pantheon">Pantheon</a> that was named after him.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Statue_of_Komitas,_Yerevan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Statue_of_Komitas%2C_Yerevan.jpg/220px-Statue_of_Komitas%2C_Yerevan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Statue_of_Komitas%2C_Yerevan.jpg/330px-Statue_of_Komitas%2C_Yerevan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Statue_of_Komitas%2C_Yerevan.jpg/440px-Statue_of_Komitas%2C_Yerevan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1003" data-file-height="755" /></a><figcaption>Statue of Komitas in <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Soviet_Union_1969_CPA_3799_stamp_(Komitas_and_Rural_Scene).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Soviet_Union_1969_CPA_3799_stamp_%28Komitas_and_Rural_Scene%29.jpg/220px-The_Soviet_Union_1969_CPA_3799_stamp_%28Komitas_and_Rural_Scene%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Soviet_Union_1969_CPA_3799_stamp_%28Komitas_and_Rural_Scene%29.jpg/330px-The_Soviet_Union_1969_CPA_3799_stamp_%28Komitas_and_Rural_Scene%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/The_Soviet_Union_1969_CPA_3799_stamp_%28Komitas_and_Rural_Scene%29.jpg/440px-The_Soviet_Union_1969_CPA_3799_stamp_%28Komitas_and_Rural_Scene%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1709" data-file-height="1236" /></a><figcaption>Komitas on a 1969 <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> postage stamp</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Komitas_Statues_in_Ejmicin_002.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Komitas_Statues_in_Ejmicin_002.JPG/220px-Komitas_Statues_in_Ejmicin_002.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Komitas_Statues_in_Ejmicin_002.JPG/330px-Komitas_Statues_in_Ejmicin_002.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/22/Komitas_Statues_in_Ejmicin_002.JPG/440px-Komitas_Statues_in_Ejmicin_002.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a><figcaption>Statue of Komitas in <a href="/wiki/Vagharshapat" title="Vagharshapat">Vagharshapat</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1950s, his manuscripts were also transferred from Paris to <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>. </p><p>Badarak was first printed in 1933 in Paris and first recorded onto a digital media in 1988 in <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>. In collecting and publishing so many folk songs, he saved the cultural heritage of <a href="/wiki/Western_Armenia" title="Western Armenia">Western Armenia</a> that otherwise would have disappeared because of the genocide. His works have been published in <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> in a thoroughly annotated edition by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Atayan" title="Robert Atayan">Robert Atayan</a>. Lately, nine songs on German poetry, written during his stay in Berlin, have been excavated from the archives in Yerevan and interpreted by soprano <a href="/wiki/Hasmik_Papian" title="Hasmik Papian">Hasmik Papian</a>. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Yerevan_State_Musical_Conservatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Yerevan State Musical Conservatory">Yerevan State Musical Conservatory</a> is named after Komitas. There also exists a world-renowned <a href="/wiki/Komitas_Quartet" title="Komitas Quartet">string quartet named after Komitas</a>. </p><p>On 6 July 2008, on the occasion of Quebec City's 400th anniversary celebration, a bronze bust of Komitas was unveiled near the Quebec National Assembly (provincial legislature, Auteuil street) in recognition of his great input to music in general and to Armenian popular and liturgical music in particular. Previously, a granite and bronze statue of Komitas was erected in Detroit in 1981 in honor of the great composer and as a reminder of the tragedy of the Armenian Genocide. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Komitas%27_tombstone_in_Yerevan%27s_Komitas_Pantheon.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Komitas%27_tombstone_in_Yerevan%27s_Komitas_Pantheon.JPG/220px-Komitas%27_tombstone_in_Yerevan%27s_Komitas_Pantheon.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Komitas%27_tombstone_in_Yerevan%27s_Komitas_Pantheon.JPG/330px-Komitas%27_tombstone_in_Yerevan%27s_Komitas_Pantheon.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Komitas%27_tombstone_in_Yerevan%27s_Komitas_Pantheon.JPG/440px-Komitas%27_tombstone_in_Yerevan%27s_Komitas_Pantheon.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>Komitas' tombstone in Yerevan's Komitas Pantheon</figcaption></figure> <p>In September 2008, the CD <i>Gomidas Songs</i>, sung by <a href="/wiki/Isabel_Bayrakdarian" title="Isabel Bayrakdarian">Isabel Bayrakdarian</a> and accompanied by the Chamber Players of the Armenian Philharmonic and pianist <a href="/wiki/Serouj_Kradjian" title="Serouj Kradjian">Serouj Kradjian</a>, was released on the <a href="/wiki/Nonesuch_Records" title="Nonesuch Records">Nonesuch</a> label. This CD was nominated for a <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a> in the Best Vocal Recording category.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A major North American tour by Ms. Bayrakdarian in October 2008 featured the music of Komitas, with concerts in Toronto, San Francisco, Orange County, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Boston and New York's <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Hall" title="Carnegie Hall">Carnegie Hall</a>. She was accompanied by the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra conducted by Anne Manson, and pianist <a href="/wiki/Serouj_Kradjian" title="Serouj Kradjian">Serouj Kradjian</a>. The <i>Remembrance Tour</i><sup id="cite_ref-urlSongs_of_the_homeland_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-urlSongs_of_the_homeland-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was dedicated to victims of all genocides and sponsored by the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (a division of the <a href="/wiki/Zoryan_Institute" title="Zoryan Institute">Zoryan Institute</a>). </p><p>The complete piano works of Komitas are recorded by <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Eahan_Arzruni" title="Şahan Arzruni">Şahan Arzruni</a> on <a href="/wiki/Kalan_M%C3%BCzik" title="Kalan Müzik">Kalan Müzik</a> label in 2010 and remain the definitive interpretation of these compositions. Among the other performers of his music are <a href="/wiki/Evgeny_Kissin" title="Evgeny Kissin">Evgeny Kissin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Grigory_Sokolov" title="Grigory Sokolov">Grigory Sokolov</a>. </p><p>Since 2018 Komitas appears on the 10000 <a href="/wiki/Armenian_dram" title="Armenian dram">Armenian dram</a> banknote. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:10000_dram_2018_Obverse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/10000_dram_2018_Obverse.jpg/290px-10000_dram_2018_Obverse.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/10000_dram_2018_Obverse.jpg/435px-10000_dram_2018_Obverse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/10000_dram_2018_Obverse.jpg/580px-10000_dram_2018_Obverse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="299" /></a><figcaption>Komitas on the 2018 10000 Dram banknote</figcaption></figure> <p>In 2019, the <a href="/wiki/The_Gurdjieff_Ensemble" title="The Gurdjieff Ensemble">Gurdjief Ensemble</a> debuted in New York City performing Komitas's folk songs on traditional instruments.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Modern performers, like <a href="/wiki/Rew%C5%9Fan_%C3%87eliker" title="Rewşan Çeliker">Rewşan Çeliker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pervin_Chakar" title="Pervin Chakar">Pervin Chakar</a>, reinterpret and promote his collected works, ensuring their continued relevance.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The following landmarks in Armenia have been named after him: </p> <ul><li>The central square of <a href="/wiki/Vagharshapat" title="Vagharshapat">Vagharshapat</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Yerevan_Komitas_State_Conservatory" class="mw-redirect" title="Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory">Yerevan State Musical Conservatory</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Komitas_Avenue" title="Komitas Avenue">Komitas Avenue</a>, the main thoroughfare of Yerevan's <a href="/wiki/Arabkir_District" title="Arabkir District">Arabkir District</a>.</li> <li>The writers' and poets' <a href="/wiki/Komitas_Pantheon" title="Komitas Pantheon">pantheon</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Komitas_Museum" title="Komitas Museum">Komitas Museum</a> adjacent to the Pantheon.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works,_editions_and_recordings"><span id="Selected_works.2C_editions_and_recordings"></span>Selected works, editions and recordings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Selected works, editions and recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Music of Komitas</i> – double LP released on the centenary of Komitas's birth. KCC, 1970.</li> <li><i>The Voice of Komitas Vardapet</i>, Komitas Vardapet – archival performances recorded in 1908–1912, featuring Komitas on vocals and piano, and <a href="/wiki/Armenak_Shahmuradyan" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenak Shahmuradyan">Armenak Shahmuradyan</a> on vocals. Traditional Crossroads, 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-urlThe_Voice_of_Komitas_Vardapet_–_Komitas_|_Songs,_Reviews,_Credits,_Awards_|_AllMusic_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-urlThe_Voice_of_Komitas_Vardapet_–_Komitas_|_Songs,_Reviews,_Credits,_Awards_|_AllMusic-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Gomidas – Songs</i>, <a href="/wiki/Isabel_Bayrakdarian" title="Isabel Bayrakdarian">Isabel Bayrakdarian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Serouj_Kradjian" title="Serouj Kradjian">Serouj Kradjian</a> (arrangements and piano), chamber players of the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Philharmonic_Orchestra" title="Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra">Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra</a>, conducted by <a href="/wiki/Eduard_Topchjan" title="Eduard Topchjan">Eduard Topchjan</a>. Nonesuch, 2005<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Komitas – Complete Works for Piano</i>, <a href="/wiki/%C5%9Eahan_Arzruni" title="Şahan Arzruni">Şahan Arzruni</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kalan_M%C3%BCzik" title="Kalan Müzik">Kalan</a>, 2012<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Hommage à Komitas</i> – audio CD containing 9 songs on German poetry (world premiere, first recording) and 26 songs in Armenian, <a href="/wiki/Hasmik_Papian" title="Hasmik Papian">Hasmik Papian</a> (soprano) and <a href="/wiki/Vardan_Mamikonian_(musician)" title="Vardan Mamikonian (musician)">Vardan Mamikonian</a> (piano). Recorded at Bavaria Studio, Munich, in July 2005. Audite (Germany) in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk, 2006.</li> <li><i>Music by Komitas</i> – audio CD featuring instrumental arrangements performed by the Gurdjieff Ensemble, directed and arranged by Levon Eskenian (with notes). <a href="/wiki/ECM_Records" title="ECM Records">ECM Records</a>, 2015.</li> <li><i>My Armenia</i> – audio CD dedicated to the 100th Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8077498--my-armenia">My Armenia</a></i> offers a very personal, touching and brilliant tribute to Armenian music by <a href="/wiki/Sergey_Khachatryan" title="Sergey Khachatryan">Sergey Khachatryan</a> and Lusine Khachatryan. <a href="/wiki/Na%C3%AFve_Records" title="Naïve Records">Naïve Records</a>, 2015.</li> <li><i>Komitas Vardapet – Six Dances</i>, Keiko Shichijo (piano). Makkum Records, 2016.</li> <li><i>Komitas: Songs</i> (arranged for piano by Villy Sargsyan), CD by Yulia Ayrapetyan [piano] under the label Grand Piano (GP895)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_on_Komitas">Works on Komitas</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Works on Komitas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation book cs1">Kuyumjian, Rita Soulahian (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=pZIwJWLuqb4C"><i>Archaeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon</i></a>. Princeton, NJ: Gomidas Institute. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781903656105" title="Special:BookSources/9781903656105"><bdi>9781903656105</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Archaeology+of+Madness%3A+Komitas%2C+Portrait+of+an+Armenian+Icon&rft.place=Princeton%2C+NJ&rft.pub=Gomidas+Institute&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=9781903656105&rft.aulast=Kuyumjian&rft.aufirst=Rita+Soulahian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DpZIwJWLuqb4C&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Nikoghos_Tahmizian" title="Nikoghos Tahmizian">Tahmizian, Nikoġos Kirakosi</a> (1994). <i>Komitasẹ ev hay žoġovowrdi eražštakan žaṙangowt'iwnẹ</i> [<i>Komitas and the Musical Legacy of the Armenian Nation</i>] (in Armenian). Pasadena, California: Drazark Hrat.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Komitas%E1%BA%B9+ev+hay+%C5%BEo%C4%A1ovowrdi+era%C5%BE%C5%A1takan+%C5%BEa%E1%B9%99angowt%27iwn%E1%BA%B9&rft.place=Pasadena%2C+California&rft.pub=Drazark+Hrat.&rft.date=1994&rft.aulast=Tahmizian&rft.aufirst=Niko%C4%A1os+Kirakosi&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Films">Films</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Komitas</i>, 1988, director: <a href="/wiki/Don_Askarian" title="Don Askarian">Don Askarian</a>, actor: Samvel Ovasapian<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Songs_of_Solomon" title="Songs of Solomon">Songs of Solomon</a></i>, 2019, directed by Arman Nshanian, Komitas depicted by Samvel Tadevosyan<sup id="cite_ref-:0_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Notes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-upper-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Սողոմոն Սողոմոնեան in <a href="/wiki/Classical_Armenian_orthography" title="Classical Armenian orthography">classical orthography</a> and Սողոմոն Սողոմոնյան in <a href="/wiki/Armenian_orthography_reform_of_1922%E2%80%9324" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian orthography reform of 1922–24">reformed orthography</a>. Sometimes <a href="/wiki/Anglicized" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglicized">anglicized</a> as <b>Solomon Solomonian</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-britannica_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-britannica-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">He is widely known as <a href="/wiki/Mononymous_person" class="mw-redirect" title="Mononymous person">simply</a> Komitas (transliterated as <b>Gomidas</b> from <a href="/wiki/Western_Armenian" title="Western Armenian">Western Armenian</a>). His church rank, <a href="/wiki/Vardapet" title="Vardapet">Vardapet</a>, is sometimes used alongside: <b>Komitas Vardapet</b> (Կոմիտաս Վարդապետ), <b>Gomidas Vartabed</b> in Western Armenian. In the early 1900s, and as late as 1908, he signed his name as Soghomon Gevorgian (Kevorkian or Keworkian),<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after the <a href="/wiki/Gevorgian_Seminary" title="Gevorgian Seminary">Gevorgian Seminary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200145–46_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200145–46-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <p><b>Citations</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200146-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200146_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSoulahian_Kuyumjian2001">Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001</a>, p. 46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://komitas.am/eng/gallery/photos/photos21.htm">"Etchmiadzin. 1902"</a>. Virtual Museum of Komitas<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">21 February</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Etchmiadzin.+1902.&rft.pub=Virtual+Museum+of+Komitas&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fkomitas.am%2Feng%2Fgallery%2Fphotos%2Fphotos21.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLang1980" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Marshall_Lang" title="David Marshall Lang">Lang, David Marshall</a> (1980). <i>Armenia: Cradle of Civilization</i>. London: <a href="/wiki/Allen_%26_Unwin" title="Allen & Unwin">Allen & Unwin</a>. p. 256. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780049560079" title="Special:BookSources/9780049560079"><bdi>9780049560079</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Armenia%3A+Cradle+of+Civilization&rft.place=London&rft.pages=256&rft.pub=Allen+%26+Unwin&rft.date=1980&rft.isbn=9780049560079&rft.aulast=Lang&rft.aufirst=David+Marshall&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-britannica-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-britannica_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-britannica_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/321606/Komitas">"Komitas"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 January</span> 2014</span>. <q>Komitas [...] created the basis for a distinctive national musical style in Armenia.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Komitas&rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2FEBchecked%2Ftopic%2F321606%2FKomitas&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1">"The Monthly Musical Record". <i>The Monthly Musical Record</i>. <b>30</b>. London: Augener: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=LvtLAAAAYAAJ&dq=komitas+keworkian&pg=PA15">15</a>. 1900.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Monthly+Musical+Record&rft.atitle=The+Monthly+Musical+Record&rft.volume=30&rft.pages=15&rft.date=1900&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200145–46-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESoulahian_Kuyumjian200145–46_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFSoulahian_Kuyumjian2001">Soulahian Kuyumjian 2001</a>, pp. 45–46.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEditorial_Board1969" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Editorial Board (1969). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170521082006/http://lraber.asj-oa.am/1552/">"Հայ ազգային երաժշտության հիմնադիրը [The Founder of Armenian National Music]"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Lraber_Hasarakakan_Gitutyunneri" title="Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri">Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri</a></i> (in Armenian) (11). Yerevan: <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Academy of Sciences">Armenian Academy of Sciences</a>: 3–6. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://lraber.asj-oa.am/1552/">the original</a> on 21 May 2017<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 November</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Lraber+Hasarakakan+Gitutyunneri&rft.atitle=%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B5+%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%A3%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6+%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%AA%D5%B7%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6+%D5%B0%D5%AB%D5%B4%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%A4%D5%AB%D6%80%D5%A8+%5BThe+Founder+of+Armenian+National+Music%5D&rft.issue=11&rft.pages=3-6&rft.date=1969&rft.au=Editorial+Board&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Flraber.asj-oa.am%2F1552%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEPoladian1972-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPoladian1972_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFPoladian1972">Poladian 1972</a>: "He was among the pioneers in ethnomusicology, a younger contemporary of Carl Stumpf (1848–1936)."</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcCollum2004" class="citation web cs1">McCollum, Jonathan Ray (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/1379/1/umi-umd-1381.pdf">"Music, Ritual, And Diasporic Identity: A Case Study Of The Armenian Apostolic Church"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maryland" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Maryland">University of Maryland</a>. p. 11<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 February</span> 2014</span>. <q>Komitas Vardapet, considered a pioneer in ethnomusicology, turned his attention to the anthropological, sociological, and historical aspects of comparative musicology.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Music%2C+Ritual%2C+And+Diasporic+Identity%3A+A+Case+Study+Of+The+Armenian+Apostolic+Church&rft.pages=11&rft.pub=University+of+Maryland&rft.date=2004&rft.aulast=McCollum&rft.aufirst=Jonathan+Ray&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fdrum.lib.umd.edu%2Fbitstream%2F1903%2F1379%2F1%2Fumi-umd-1381.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrutchfield1987" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Will_Crutchfield" title="Will Crutchfield">Crutchfield, Will</a> (5 October 1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/05/arts/music-noted-in-brief-choir-from-armenia-at-avery-fisher-hall.html">"Music Noted in Brief; Choir From Armenia at Avery Fisher Hall"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 April</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Arab+News&rft.atitle=Turkey%E2%80%99s+Kurdish+opera+singer+inspires+Kurds+by+singing+in+native+tongue&rft.date=2020-10-13&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farab.news%2F2dad5&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-urlThe_Voice_of_Komitas_Vardapet_–_Komitas_|_Songs,_Reviews,_Credits,_Awards_|_AllMusic-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-urlThe_Voice_of_Komitas_Vardapet_–_Komitas_|_Songs,_Reviews,_Credits,_Awards_|_AllMusic_40-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-voice-of-komitas-vardapet-mw0000602012">"The Voice of Komitas Vardapet – Komitas | AllMusic"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/AllMusic" title="AllMusic">AllMusic</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=AllMusic&rft.atitle=The+Voice+of+Komitas+Vardapet+%E2%80%93+Komitas+%26%23124%3B+AllMusic&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.allmusic.com%2Falbum%2Fthe-voice-of-komitas-vardapet-mw0000602012&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-41">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Booklet includes sung texts in Armenian transliteration and English translation</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Booklet includes a historical discussion of the music in Armenian, Turkish and English</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-43">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.don-askarian.com/films/komitas.html">Films</a> by <a href="/wiki/Don_Askarian" title="Don Askarian">Don Askarian</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150211082427/http://www.don-askarian.com/films/komitas.html">Archived</a> 11 February 2015 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Harvard_Film_Archive" title="Harvard Film Archive">Harvard Film Archive</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2002janfeb/hieroglyphs.html">Hieroglyphs of Armenia: Films by Don Askarian</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150307083133/http://www.hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2002janfeb/hieroglyphs.html">Archived</a> 7 March 2015 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.007-berlin.de/de/artikel/don-askorjan.htm">"Don Askarian"</a>. <i>007-berlin.de</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 November</span> 2017</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=007-berlin.de&rft.atitle=Don+Askarian&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.007-berlin.de%2Fde%2Fartikel%2Fdon-askorjan.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-:0_46-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcNary2020" class="citation web cs1">McNary, Dave (15 December 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://variety.com/2020/film/news/armenian-movie-songs-of-solomon-international-oscar-1234853733/">"Armenia's <i>Songs of Solomon</i> to Compete for International Feature Film Oscar"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Variety_(magazine)" title="Variety (magazine)">Variety</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 December</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Variety&rft.atitle=Armenia%27s+Songs+of+Solomon+to+Compete+for+International+Feature+Film+Oscar&rft.date=2020-12-15&rft.aulast=McNary&rft.aufirst=Dave&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2020%2Ffilm%2Fnews%2Farmenian-movie-songs-of-solomon-international-oscar-1234853733%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sources">Sources</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAtayan1979" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Atayan" title="Robert Atayan">Atayan, Robert</a> (1979). "Կոմիտաս" [Komitas]. In <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Hambardzumyan" class="mw-redirect" title="Viktor Hambardzumyan">Hambardzumyan, Viktor</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Armenian_Soviet_Encyclopedia" title="Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia">Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia</a></i> (in Armenian). Vol. 5. Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopedia. pp. 539–541.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%BD&rft.btitle=Armenian+Soviet+Encyclopedia&rft.place=Yerevan&rft.pages=539-541&rft.pub=Armenian+Encyclopedia&rft.date=1979&rft.aulast=Atayan&rft.aufirst=Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMooradian1969" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Mooradian, M. (1969). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141229071005/http://hpj.asj-oa.am/1400/">"Կոմիտասի վերջին այցելությունը Հայաստան"</a> [Komitas's Last Visit to Armenia]. <i><a href="/wiki/Patma-Banasirakan_Handes" title="Patma-Banasirakan Handes">Patma-Banasirakan Handes</a></i> (in Armenian) (4). Yerevan: <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Academy_of_Sciences" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Academy of Sciences">Armenian Academy of Sciences</a>: 61–69. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://hpj.asj-oa.am/1400/">the original</a> on 29 December 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 December</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Patma-Banasirakan+Handes&rft.atitle=%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%AB+%D5%BE%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%AB%D5%B6+%D5%A1%D5%B5%D6%81%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%A8+%D5%80%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%B6&rft.issue=4&rft.pages=61-69&rft.date=1969&rft.aulast=Mooradian&rft.aufirst=M.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fhpj.asj-oa.am%2F1400%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPoladian1972" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Sirvart_Poladian" title="Sirvart Poladian">Poladian, Sirvart</a> (January 1972). "Komitas Vardapet and His Contribution to Ethnomusicology". <i><a href="/wiki/Ethnomusicology_(academic_journal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnomusicology (academic journal)">Ethnomusicology</a></i>. <b>16</b> (1). <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois_Press" title="University of Illinois Press">University of Illinois Press</a> on behalf of <a href="/wiki/Society_for_Ethnomusicology" title="Society for Ethnomusicology">Society for Ethnomusicology</a>: 82–97. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.2307%2F850444">10.2307/850444</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/850444">850444</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Ethnomusicology&rft.atitle=Komitas+Vardapet+and+His+Contribution+to+Ethnomusicology&rft.volume=16&rft.issue=1&rft.pages=82-97&rft.date=1972-01&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.2307%2F850444&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fstable%2F850444%23id-name%3DJSTOR&rft.aulast=Poladian&rft.aufirst=Sirvart&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSoulahian_Kuyumjian2001" class="citation book cs1">Soulahian Kuyumjian, Rita (2001). <i>Archeology of Madness: Komitas, Portrait of an Armenian Icon</i>. Princeton, New Jersey: <a href="/wiki/Gomidas_Institute" title="Gomidas Institute">Gomidas Institute</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-903656-10-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-903656-10-9"><bdi>1-903656-10-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Archeology+of+Madness%3A+Komitas%2C+Portrait+of+an+Armenian+Icon&rft.place=Princeton%2C+New+Jersey&rft.pub=Gomidas+Institute&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=1-903656-10-9&rft.aulast=Soulahian+Kuyumjian&rft.aufirst=Rita&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Atayan" title="Robert Atayan">Atayan, Robert</a>, ed. (2001). <i>Essays and Articles, The musicological treatises of Komitas Vardapet</i>. Translated by Vatche Barsoumian. Pasadena, California: Drazark Press. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/50203070">50203070</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Essays+and+Articles%2C+The+musicological+treatises+of+Komitas+Vardapet&rft.place=Pasadena%2C+California&rft.pub=Drazark+Press&rft.date=2001&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F50203070&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Begian" title="Harry Begian">Begian, Harry</a> (1964). <i>Gomidas Vartabed: His Life and Importance to Armenian Music</i>. University of Michigan.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gomidas+Vartabed%3A+His+Life+and+Importance+to+Armenian+Music&rft.pub=University+of+Michigan&rft.date=1964&rft.aulast=Begian&rft.aufirst=Harry&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">Church, Michael (21 April 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/apr/21/komitas-vardapet-folk-music-armenia">"Komitas Vardapet, forgotten folk hero"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 January</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Komitas+Vardapet%2C+forgotten+folk+hero&rft.date=2011-04-21&rft.aulast=Church&rft.aufirst=Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmusic%2F2011%2Fapr%2F21%2Fkomitas-vardapet-folk-music-armenia&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Karakashian, Meline (2011). <i>Կոմիտաս՝ Հոգեբանական Վերլուծում Մը [Gomidas: A Psychological Study]</i> (in Armenian). Antelias, Lebanon: <a href="/wiki/Armenian_Catholicosate_of_Cilicia" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia">Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9953021638" title="Special:BookSources/978-9953021638"><bdi>978-9953021638</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%9D+%D5%80%D5%B8%D5%A3%D5%A5%D5%A2%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A1%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6+%D5%8E%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AC%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%AE%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B4+%D5%84%D5%A8+%5BGomidas%3A+A+Psychological+Study%5D&rft.place=Antelias%2C+Lebanon&rft.pub=Armenian+Catholicosate+of+Cilicia&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-9953021638&rft.aulast=Karakashian&rft.aufirst=Meline&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Komitas, Vardapet (1998). <i>Armenian Sacred and Folk Music</i>. Translated by Edward Gulbekian. Surrey, England: Curzon Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Armenian+Sacred+and+Folk+Music&rft.place=Surrey%2C+England&rft.pub=Curzon+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.au=Komitas%2C+Vardapet&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">McCollum, Jonathan; Nercessian, Andy (2004). <i>Armenian Music: A Comprehensive Bibliography and Discography</i>. 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Vienna: Mkhitarian Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%D4%BF%D5%B8%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%BF%D5%A1%D5%BD+%D5%BE%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A4%D5%A1%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%BF%3A+%D4%BF%D5%A5%D5%A1%D5%B6%D6%84%D5%A8+%D5%A5%D6%82+%D5%A3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AE%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%A7%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%AB%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%A8&rft.place=Vienna&rft.pub=Mkhitarian+Press&rft.date=1924&rft.aulast=Terlemezian&rft.aufirst=Ruben&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Meline_Toumani" title="Meline Toumani">Toumani, Meline</a> (17 October 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/arts/music/19toum.html">"Songs Lifted in Praise of an Armenian Hero"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">14 February</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Contributions+of+Armenian+Composers+to+the+Clarinet+Repertoire&rft.pub=University+of+North+Texas&rft.date=2002-12&rft.aulast=Wolverton&rft.aufirst=Cynthia+Kay&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fdigital.library.unt.edu%2Fark%3A%2F67531%2Fmetadc3299%2Fm2%2F1%2Fhigh_res_d%2Fdissertation.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKomitas" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Komitas&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px 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class="external text" href="https://komitasmuseum.am">Komitas Museum</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nonesuch.com/artists/isabel-bayrakdarian">Isabel Bayrakdarian: Gomidas Songs on Nonesuch</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.armenianmusicarch.com/komitas.html">Biography #1</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040629054408/http://www.don-askarian.am/articles/biography_of_komitas.htm">Biography #2</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/komitas/komitas-and-the-international-music-society/10150102615398476">Biography #3</a>, <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040605050834/http://www.hayastan.com/music/k3.htm">Some songs in .rm format</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.audite.de/sc.php?cd=92570">36 Komitas-songs</a> on <a href="/wiki/Super_Audio_CD" title="Super Audio CD">Super Audio CD</a> by German independent label <a href="/wiki/Audite" title="Audite">Audite</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120425014537/http://www.vicdanfilmleri.org/?see=rixa1">Short movie about Komitas Vartabed</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vimeo.com/80247412">Ամպել ա ("Ambel a", "Clouded Over")</a> on <a href="/wiki/Vimeo" title="Vimeo">Vimeo</a>, performed by the <a href="/wiki/Dilijan" title="Dilijan">Dilijan</a> String Quartet</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vimeo.com/80249258">Շողեր ջան ("Shogher jan")</a> on <a href="/wiki/Vimeo" title="Vimeo">Vimeo</a>, performed by the Dilijan String Quartet</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vimeo.com/80251008">Կաքաւիկ ("Kakavik", "Little Partridge")</a> on <a 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