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Avet Terterian

1929 - 1994

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Alfred Roubenovich "Avet" Terterian (also Terteryan) (Armenian: Ալֆրեդ "Ավետ" Տերտերյան, July 29, 1929 – December 11, 1994) was an Armenian composer, awarded the Konrad Adenauer Prize. Terterian composed eight (completed) symphonies, several of which are recorded, an opera and several chamber works. Terterian was a friend and colleague of Giya Kancheli, Konstantin Orbelyan, and Tigran Mansurian. Dmitri Shostakovich praised Terterian as "very talented" and "with great future" in one of his letters, published by his friend Isaak Glikman, having heard a recording of Terterian's works at Armenia's "House of Composers" summer resort in Dilijan, Armenia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Avet Terterian is the 1,126th most popular composer (down from 1,112th in 2019), the 98th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (up from 105th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Azerbaijani Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Avet Terterian ranks 1,126 out of 1,451. Before him are Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Ture Rangström, Adolf Bernhard Marx, Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Siegmund von Hausegger, and Rudolf Friml. After him are W. C. Handy, Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, Brian Ferneyhough, Otto Jahn, Oskar Sala, and Julius Benedict.

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Among people born in 1929, Avet Terterian ranks 340. Before him are Miyoshi Umeki, John Hejduk, Héctor Alterio, Wolfgang Peters, Eliseo Prado, and Fred Martin. After him are Klara Rumyanova, Walter Schleger, Ulu Grosbard, Ken Henry, James Shigeta, and Ray Barretto. Among people deceased in 1994, Avet Terterian ranks 221. Before him are Delio Rodríguez, Robert Jungk, Willem Jacob Luyten, Vladimir Melanin, Grisha Filipov, and Hans Jakob. After him are Sigmund Ruud, Dinah Shore, Rudolf Raftl, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Ladislav Mňačko, and Gozo Shioda.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Avet Terterian ranks 98 out of 232. Before him are Abraham Alikhanov (1904), Jafar Jabbarly (1899), John M. Stahl (1886), Molla Vali Vidadi (1709), Mikayil Mushfig (1908), and Tatiana Zatulovskaya (1935). After him are Alim Qasimov (1957), Arif Malikov (1933), Veronika Dudarova (1916), Vladimir Bagirov (1936), Zuleykha Seyidmammadova (1919), and Nikolai Baibakov (1911).

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Among COMPOSERS In Azerbaijan

Among composers born in Azerbaijan, Avet Terterian ranks 4. Before him are Uzeyir Hajibeyov (1885), Fikret Amirov (1922), and Gara Garayev (1918). After him are Arif Malikov (1933), Tofig Guliyev (1917), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (1947), Elza Ibrahimova (1938), and Rauf Hajiyev (1922).

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