Makar Yekmalyan

Makar Yekmalyan (in Armenian Õ„Õ¡Õ¯Õ¡Ö€ ÔµÕ¯Õ´Õ¡Õ¬ÕµÕ¡Õ¶) (2 February 1856, Vagharshapat - 6 March 1905, Tiflis) was an Armenian composer.

Biography

Yekmalyan studied at the Echmiadzin seminary and later in St Petersburg with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. He then taught music in Tbilisi (Tiflis), where he died in 1905.

His most noted composition was the Patarag (in Armenian ÕŠÕ¡Õ¿Õ¡Ö€Õ¡Õ£), the setting of the Armenian Apostolic Church's Divine Liturgy, which he completed in 1892 in several arrangements. Patarag was first published in Leipzig in 1896.

Bibliography

• Nikoghos Tahmizian, Makar Yekmalian - Life and Work (in Armenian), 1981, Sovetakan Grogh Publishing, Yerevan, Armenia.