While his output is modest, among Armenians, Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935) is widely celebrated as the father of modern Armenian classical music and as an ethnomusicologist who collected and preserved…
Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) is probably the most prolific American composer of whom you have never heard. The composer's surviving oeuvre includes over 500 works: at least 67 symphonies, nine operas…
