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Gevorg Geodakyan

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Gevorg Geodakyan
Born(1928-08-12)12 August 1928
Gyumri, Armenia (then Leninakan, Soviet Union)
Died20 December 2015(2015-12-20) (aged 87)
Alma materYerevan Komitas State Conservatory (1952), Moscow Conservatory (1956)
Occupationmusicologist

Gevorg Shmavoni Geodakyan[1] (Armenian: Գևորգ Շմավոնի Գյոդակյան; Russian: Гео́ргий Шмаво́нович Геодакя́н, romanized: Georgy Shmavonovich Geodakyan;[2] 12 August 1928 – 20 December 2015) was an Armenian musicologist.[3] He headed the Music Department of the Institute of Arts of the Armenian Academy of Sciences since 1966.[3]

Born in Leninakan (present-day Gyumri),[2] Geodakyan first graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1952 and then completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1956.[4] He died on 20 December 2015 at the age of 87.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Serzh Sargsyan congratulated Gevorg Geodakyan on 85th birth anniversary". Armenpress. 12 August 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  2. ^ a b Ter-Simonian, Margarita. "Геодакян Г. Ш. [Geodakyan G. S.]" (in Russian). Music Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17 August 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Երաժշտության բաժին [Department of Music]" (in Armenian). The Institute of Arts. Archived from the original on 17 August 2014.
  4. ^ Navoyan, M. R. (2003). "Երաժշտական հայագիտության երախտավորը (Գ. Շ. Գյոդակյանի ծննդյան 75-ամյակի առիթով) [Honoured musicologist-armenologist (to G. Sh.Gyodakian's 75th birth anniversary)]". Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri (in Armenian) (2). Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences: 237–239. ISSN 0320-8117.
  5. ^ Կյանքից հեռացել է ՀՀ արվեստի վաստակավոր գործիչ Գեորգի Գյոդակյանը Archived 2015-12-23 at the Wayback Machine