{"id":14591,"date":"2026-02-13T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acu.am\/?page_id=14591"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:46:56","slug":"syuni-grigor-mirzayan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acu.am\/?page_id=14591&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"SYUNI GRIGOR (MIRZAYAN)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<section class=\"section has-parallax\" id=\"section_371817675\">\n\t\t<div class=\"section-bg fill\" data-parallax-container=\".section\" data-parallax-background data-parallax=\"-3\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1518\" height=\"853\" src=\"https:\/\/acu.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/BG.jpg\" class=\"bg attachment- size-\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"max-width:1200px\" id=\"row-859579509\">\n\n\t<div id=\"col-641857302\" class=\"col medium-5 small-12 large-5\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t<div id=\"gap-191323414\" class=\"gap-element clearfix\" style=\"display:block; 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studied at the St. George Seminary in Echmiadzin under Kara-Murza and Komitas, also collecting and harmonizing folk songs<\/p>\n<p>1904 &#8211; graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory (prof.-s: N. Rimsky-Korsakov, A. Lyadov, and A. Glazunov)<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-3943567448\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-3943567448-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-activities\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-3943567448-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>ACTIVITIES<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-3943567448-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-3943567448-label\">\n\t\t\t\n<p>1895 &#8211; organized a choir in Shushi<\/p>\n<p>1905-1907, he taught music at the Nersisyan School in Tbilisi<\/p>\n<p>Directed the local Armenian church choir, harmonized spiritual songs, and performed arrangements of folk pieces<\/p>\n<p>From 1908 &#8211; toured various regions with Armenian populations (Trapezion, Karin, Tbilisi again, Tehran, Constantinople, and others; from 1923, the USA) and collected folk melodies (also using notes by Komitas)<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<div id=\"accordion-370752170\" class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t<a id=\"accordion-370752170-label\" class=\"accordion-title plain\" href=\"#accordion-item-works\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"accordion-370752170-content\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle\"><i class=\"icon-angle-down\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/button>\n\t\t\t<span>WORKS<\/span>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<div id=\"accordion-370752170-content\" class=\"accordion-inner\" aria-labelledby=\"accordion-370752170-label\">\n\t\t\t\n<p>Vocal cycle &#8220;Songs of a New Life&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Operetta &#8220;Aregnazan&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Song drama &#8220;Asli and Karam&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements of village songs for choir (&#8220;Sareri ovin mernim,&#8221; &#8220;Sarery ovel a,&#8221; &#8220;Alagyaz,&#8221; etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Solo works with piano accompaniment (lyrics by of H. Tumanyan, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask Me,&#8221; &#8220;Akh al-Vardi&#8221; by Av. 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