Anton Mailyan | |
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Background information | |
Born | March 16 (28), 1880 Tbilisi, Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire |
Died | April 20, 1942 62) Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union | (aged
Genres | Classical music, opera, ballet, comedy |
Occupation(s) | composer, prose writer, librettist, conductor, folklorist |
Years active | 1905–1942 |
Anton Mailyan (Armenian: Անտոն Մայիլյան, 1880–1942) was an Armenian Soviet composer, musical and public figure, prose writer, librettist, conductor, teacher, folklorist and Honored art worker of Azerbaijani SSR. [1] [2]
He was born on March 28, 1880, in the city of Tbilisi. There he graduated from the Nersisian School and studied at the teacher's seminary in Tbilisi from Makar Yekmalyan and H. Kara-Murza. Then in 1900–1903 he studied at the Tbilisi Musical College in the composition class of N. D. Nikolaev.
He began his career as a composer in 1905. In 1906 he taught singing at the Tbilisi teacher's seminary. From 1906 he lived and worked in Baku, where in 1908 he created the first working choir here.
In 1910-1917, he published in Baku the monthly Armenian magazine "Theatre and Music". On the pages of the magazine, questions of the development of the music of the East were developed. [3] During the World War I he constantly participated in charity evenings organized by Armenians in Baku. So in 1915 he took part in the second Armenian charity evening in favor of refugees called "Even or Odd." Armenian folk songs were performed at the evening, the song “Kele-kele” performed to the music of Anton Mayilyan was especially successful. [4]
In 1918-1919 he continued to teach music in Tbilisi for years and since 1920 he was again in Baku. From 1925 he headed the musical section of the Baku House of Armenian Art. He also collected musical folklore of the peoples of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia and was the author of literary works (the novel "Armen", 1900; the stories "The Orphan", 1897, "Sad Moments", 1900).
In 1930 he was awarded the honorary title "Honored art worker of the Azerbaijan SSR" and on April 17, 1938, he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour. [5]
He died on April 20, 1942, in Baku and was buried on April 24 at the Armenian cemetery in Baku. [5]
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