MIRZAYAN

MICHAEL

Composer, choirmaster, pedagogue, musical-social figure

21/08/1888, Tiflis – 26/11/1958, Yerevan

BIOGRAPHY

1908 – graduated from Nersisian School

Continued his studies at the Tiflis Music School, then at the Conservatory (prof. I. Cherepnin)

Romances

Songs

Groups

Marches

Children’s musical pictures (“The Frog and the Goose”, “The Dragonfly and the Ant”, “The Assembly of Mice”, etc.)

Songbooks and Music Literacy Manuals:

1935 – “School songbook”

1935 – Textbook of note Literacy

1955 – Handbook of Music Literacy and Song

1966 – Collection of songs and romances (edited by: R. Atayan and M. Mirzoyan)

Badge of Honor

1939 – Honored Art Worker of the ASSR