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Karen Khachaturian

1920 - 2011

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Karen Surenovich Khachaturian (Russian: Карэн Суренович Хачатурян, Armenian: Կարեն Խաչատրյան; Moscow, 19 September 1920 – Moscow, 19 July 2011) was a Soviet and Russian composer of Armenian ethnicity and the nephew of composer Aram Khachaturian. Khachaturian was born in Moscow, the son of Suren Khachaturian, a theatrical director. His studies under Genrikh Litinsky at the Moscow Conservatory were interrupted by a term of duty in the entertainment division of the Red Army. Resuming his studies in 1945, he worked with Dmitri Shostakovich and Nikolai Myaskovsky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Karen Khachaturian is the 1,056th most popular composer (down from 1,025th in 2019), the 1,502nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,477th in 2019) and the 51st most popular Russian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Karen Khachaturian ranks 1,056 out of 1,451. Before him are Nicolas Dalayrac, Richard Addinsell, Francisco Mignone, Johann Theile, Frederick Loewe, and Sylvano Bussotti. After him are Joseph Lamb, Alessandro Striggio, Igor Krutoy, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, James MacMillan, and Alexander Serov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Karen Khachaturian ranks 269. Before him are Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Mustafa Khalil, Bengt Ekerot, Eugênio Sales, Anne-Cath. Vestly, and George Herbig. After him are Janet Jagan, Ross Martin, Maxi Herber, Kenneth E. Iverson, Roy Jenkins, and Eddie Slovik. Among people deceased in 2011, Karen Khachaturian ranks 238. Before him are Iván Menczel, Tatyana Shchelkanova, Tatyana Lioznova, Coen Moulijn, Shammi Kapoor, and M. F. Husain. After him are Theodore Roszak, Luiz Bueno, Ida Fink, Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, Robert Ettinger, and Mario Echandi Jiménez.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Karen Khachaturian ranks 1,502 out of 3,761. Before him are Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879), Boris Parygin (1930), Jacob Bruce (1669), Tetyana Yablonska (1917), Vasily Golitsyn (1643), and Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952). After him are Mischa Auer (1905), Alexander Chayanov (1888), Esfir Shub (1894), Gamzat-bek (1789), Mikhail Khorobrit (1229), and Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873).

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Among COMPOSERS In Russia

Among composers born in Russia, Karen Khachaturian ranks 51. Before him are Nicolas Slonimsky (1894), Ivan Larionov (1830), Hermann Goetz (1840), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), and Gavriil Popov (1904). After him are Alexander Serov (1820), Nikolai Roslavets (1881), Valeri Brainin (1948), Aulis Sallinen (1935), Shlomo Mintz (1957), and Dimitri Arakishvili (1873).

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