Presentation Khachaturian Biography

Slide 1 Aram Khachaturian is a Soviet composer of Armenian origin, author of the ballets Spartak, Gayane, musical suite Masquerade. Slide 3 Aram was born on June 6 in the village of Kodzhori near the capital of Georgia. Soon the family moved to Tiflis. Khachaturian's father was a craftsman, the owner of a binding workshop. Mother Kumash Sarkisovna was 10 years younger than her husband and was engaged in housekeeping.

Five children were born in the family - the daughter of Ashhen and the sons of Vaginak, Suren, Levon, Aram, but the girl died in infancy. Mother loved to sing Armenian songs, and the youngest son Aram at that time played along with everything that came to hand: pots or copper basins. The zeal to music was not welcomed in the family, his father sought to give a good education to all his sons, so Aram was soon determined in the private gymnasium of the Princess Argutinskaya-Dolgorukova.

In childhood, the boy easily mastered, in addition to his native, still Georgian and Russian. Slide 4 atmosphere of streets and lanes of the multinational city was saturated with musical sounds that poured from everywhere. The boy involuntarily absorbed the melodies and rhythms of different peoples living in the capital of Georgia. In the year for the summer, the elder brother of Aram Suren, who had already lived in Moscow at that time, arrived in Tiflis.

Suren communicated closely with the founders of the Russian theater: Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov and Mikhail Chekhov. Having caught fire to create a national Armenian theater, Suren came to his homeland to look for talented compatriots to study in Moscow. Together with the theaters, the Suren Levon and Aram brothers went to the capital of Russia. Slide 5 In Moscow, young men plunged into the cultural life of the city with the head: they visited opera, ballet, performances of symphonic orchestras, dramatic performances.

A great impression on Aram was made by the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. A year later, the Khachaturian entered the department of the university, but the love of music took his own: the young man also began to attend the Gnesin music school, in which the composition of the composition was created. The first teacher of Khachaturian was Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, a meeting with whom he determined the creative biography of a young man.

Slide 7 Khachaturian, who began to study the theory of music and the notate letter too late, at first it was very difficult. In addition to the piano, Aram mastered the game for cello at the school. The first samples of writing music were successful: “Dance for the violin and piano” is still included in the piggy bank of the violin repertoire.

In the year, Khachaturian enters the Moscow Conservatory in the class of composer Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky. During these years, Aram creates a suite for Alta and piano, piano "Tokkata", "seven fugs for the piano." The trio for piano, violin and clarinet was praised by Sergey Prokofiev, who arranged the premiere of this work in Paris. The waltz from the suite "Masquerade" was one of the best works of symphonic music of the XX century.

Slide 8 During the war, Aram Khachaturian is evacuated to Perm, where he composes the ballet "Gayan", the most striking numbers of which were "lullaby" and "dance with sabers." The musician composes the “Symphony with the bells”, the patriotic works “Song of Captain Gastello” and the march “Heroes of Russian”. The composer's music is broadcast on the All -Union radio.

At the end of the war, a score of the Armenia Anthms appears from the pen of the master. Aram Khachaturian was conducting conducting and traveled with performances by large centers of the Soviet Union, Europe and America. In the years, concerts-rapposodia for violin, cello, piano appear in a row, and in years the composer creates a number of sonatas for string tools.

A fast pace, a strong -willed uniform rhythm, chanting the melody, voiced and sharp orchestral sounds - all this reproduces the speed and rhythm of movements, saber strokes. In this work, the fiery temperament, energy, the rapid spontaneous power of the rhythm of the warlike dance of the peoples of the Transcaucasia “honest word,” said Khachaturian, “if I knew that he would get such popularity and began to pour out my other works, I would never write it!

The famous "dance with sabers" appeared at the request of Gayane ballet director. Khachaturian recalled that he wrote it in just 11 hours. Ironically, it was thanks to this melody that the composer’s name became known to the general public outside the Soviet Union. In the West, he was even called "Mr." Dance with Sabers. "