Ruben Altunyan Explained

Ruben Altunyan
Birth Date:	31 March 1939
Birth Place:	Yerevan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
Occupation:	Composer, conductor

Ruben Tatuli Altunyan (Armenian: Ռուբեն Թաթուլի Ալթունյան; 31 March 1939^[1] – 21 November 2021) was an Armenian composer, violist, and conductor.^[2] He was the son of conductor Tatul Altunyan.

Selected works

• String Quartet No. 1 (1962)
• Perpetuum Mobile (Անընդհատ շարժում) for violin and piano (1964)
• Concerto-Symphony (Կոնցերտ-Սիմֆոնիա; Концерт-Симфония) for violin, viola and symphony orchestra (1966)
• Sonata for violin and piano (1966)
• Sonata for cello solo (1977)
• Symphony (1980)
• String Quartet No. 2 (1996)
• Symphony for chamber orchestra (1997)
• Tamzara (Թամզարա) for symphony orchestra (2004)
• Book of Lamentations (Մատյան ողբերգության), Ballet-Oratorio after Gregory of Narek (2010)
• Piano Trio (2012)
• Khachatriana (Խաչատրիանա) for chamber orchestra (2013)

External links

• Ruben Altunyan at AllMusic

Notes and References

1. Book: Pfitzinger, Scott. Composer Genealogies: A Compendium of Composers, Their Teachers, and Their Students. 11. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. March 2017. 9781442272255. Google Books.
2. Web site: Professor, Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Armenia, composer, conductor Ruben Altunyan passed away. Armenpress. 21 November 2021. 22 November 2021. Armenian.