Tigran Chukhajian
Tigran Chukhajian | |
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| Born | 1837 |
| Died | March 11, 1898 Smyrna, Ottoman Empire |
| Other names | Dikran Chouhajian, Tigran Tchoukhajian, Dikran Çuhacıyan |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
Tigran Gevorki Chukhajianconductor, and the founder of the first opera institution in the Ottoman Empire.[3]
Biography
Chukhajian was born in
Armenian Lyre.In his works, Chukhajian used the elements of European musical techniques and eastern music elements[4] He is an author of pieces for piano, songs and romances, chamber and symphonic works, operas. His most successful opera was Leblebici hor-hor agha (1875), it was premiered at the French Theatre in Constantinople, it was so successful that during the season it was performed more than hundred times and during the month Ramadan it was performed every single night[5] (Zemire, 1890) etc. He died in Smyrna (now İzmir). Chukhajian is buried in the Armenian cemetery of İzmir.[citation needed
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He created the first Armenian opera, Armenian Opera Theater opera theater in Yerevan.[1] Arshak II continued in the repertoire of the Yerevan Opera Theater. In 2001, it was staged at the San Francisco Opera.[7]
Chukhajian is also remembered as the composer of what may have been the first original opera in Turkish, Arif'in Hilesi (Arif's Deception), based on Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector .The opera caused a conflict between Chouhajian and Gullu Agop whether it was a vaudeville or opera. It was performed in the Gedikpaşa theatre.[8]
Selected compositions
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Operas
- Arshak II (opera) (1868)
- Arif'in Hilesi (1874)
- Leblebidji Hor-Hor Agha (1875)
- Zemire (1890)
- Indiana (1897)
Solo Piano Works
- Mouvement Perpetuel
- Cascade de couz
- Illusion
- Apres La Gavotte
- Deux Fantaisies Orientales
- La Lyre Orientale, Laura
- Rapelle-tois
- Romans
- Impromptu in B Flat Minor ‘Cascade De Couz’ (1887)
- Danse Caractéristique in a minor ‘L’orientale’ (1891)
- Grande Valse Fantastique in a minor ‘Illusions’ (1888)
- Tarantelle in b-flat minor (1887)
- Caprice in e minor ‘La Lyre Orientale’ (1894)
- Mazurka De Salon ‘Mignon’ (1887)
- Une Gavotte De Plus in E-flat Major (1883)
- Polka in F Major ‘La Gaité’ (1892)
- Proti Polka in G Major (1892)
- Funeral March in d minor (1884)
- Fantaisie Orientale No. 1 in A Minor ‘Sur des Motifs Turcs’ (1895)
- Fantaisie Orientale No. 2 in A Minor ‘Sur des Motifs Turcs’ (1895)
References
- ^ a b Sarkisyan 2001.
- ^ His name is sometimes transcribed as 'Tigran Tchoukhajian' or 'Dikran Tchouhadjian'.
- ISBN 0313262209.
- ^ Karadağlı, Özgecan. . From Empire to Republic: Western Art Music, Nationalism, and the Merging Mediation of Saygun’s Op.26 Yunus Emre Oratorio. University of Alberta: Unpublished PhD Dissertation, 2017
- ^ Karadağlı, Özgecan. . From Empire to Republic: Western Art Music, Nationalism, and the Merging Mediation of Saygun’s Op.26 Yunus Emre Oratorio. University of Alberta: Unpublished PhD Dissertation, 2017.
- ^ Karadagli, O. (2020). Western Performing Arts in the Late Ottoman Empire: Accommodation and Formation. Context, 46, 17-33.
- ^ San Francisco Opera Performance Archive, accessed 22 June 2019.
- ^ Karadağlı, Özgecan. Türkiye’ye Müzikli Sahne Sanatlarının Girişi Dikran Çuhacıyan Öncesi ve Sonrası. İstanbul: Unpublished Master's Thesis, 2003.
Bibliography
- Sarkisyan, Svetlana (2001). "Chukhajian, Tigran Gevorki". .(subscription required)
- Karadagli, Ozgecan. “From Empire to Republic: Western Art Music, Nationalism, and the Merging Mediation of Saygun’s Op.26 Yunus Emre Oratorio.” University of Alberta Libraries, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7939/R3FQ9QK4S.
- Karadagli, Ozgecan. 2003. “Türkiye’ye Müzikli Sahne Sanatlarının Girisi Dikran Çuhacıyan Öncesi ve Sonrasi. Istanbul: Unpublished Master's Thesis.
- Karadagli, O. (2020). Western Performing Arts in the Late Ottoman Empire: Accommodation and Formation. Context, 46, 17-33.
Further reading
- Nikoghos Tahmizian, The Life and Work of Dikran Tchouhadjian, trans. Aris Sevag, Pasadena, CA: Drazark Publishing, 2001. (translated from "Dikran Tchouhadjian: gyanku yev steghtazakortzoutiunu," 1999)
- Ozgecan Karadagli, Western Performing Arts in the Late Ottoman Empire: Accommodation and Formation [1],
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dikran Tchouhadjian.
- Chukhajian – Arsaces II – Aram Katanyan (recording of the opera)
- In the Footsteps of Tchouhadjian — documentary film about Chukhajian
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