Thursday, January 21 2021 13:25

ArmInfo. Today marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet and Armenian composer, People's Artist of the USSR Arno Babajanyan.  Arno  Harutyunovich Babajanyan was born on January 21 (according to his  passport - January 22) 1921 in Yerevan, into a family of teachers.

In 1928. entered the group of gifted children at the Yerevan  Conservatory. In 1938 he went to Moscow, where he was immediately  enrolled in the last course at Gnesinka, and in 1940 he entered the  Moscow State Conservatory in the class of Professor K.N. Igumnov.   Arno Babajanyan is one of the brightest composers of the 20th  century. For more than half a century, his songs, classical  symphonies, quartets and rhapsodies have been performed by famous  musicians in concert halls around the world. Poets Andrei  Voznesensky, Leonid Derbenev, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Robert  Rozhdestvensky were honored to write poetry for his music. Among the  performers of the academic music of Babajanyan: M.   Rostropovich, E.  Gilels, D.   Oistrakh, L.   Vlasenko, J. Ter-Merkerian, D. Khanjyan.   Soviet pop stars stood in line for Arno Babadzhanyan's songs.

He wrote music for films, performed in concerts as a pianist. For the  "Heroic Ballad" Arno Babajanyan was awarded the Stalin Prize. Aram  Khachaturian recognized him as an outstanding symphonist.

To the music of Arno Babajanyan, such hits have been written as -  <Queen of Beauty>, <Blue Taiga>, <Be with me>, <Thank you>,  <Wedding>, <Do not rush>, <Ferris wheel>, <Year of love >, <Give me  back the music>, <The best city in the world>, <Song of the first  love> <Nocturne Babajanyan> has the widest recognition.