Tigran mansurian biography of martin
The Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian (b.
Tigran Mansurian was born in in Beirut to Armenian parents and first attended school at a French Catholic institution..
Tigran Mansurian
“The sources that have fed my music have been many. I was born in Beirut, Lebanon, which lies on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea.
And it is very likely that I have absorbed, directly and indirectly, the various cultures that live and thrive on its periphery.”
Tigran Mansurian, who was born in 1939, moved with his family back to their ancestral Armenia in 1947 and studied at the Yerevan Conservatory, of which he would later become director.
In the 1960s he was attracted by the ideas of the Western avant-garde, but became increasingly convinced of the importance of the spirit of place and of composing in an authentically Armenian voice; he is deeply steeped in his country’s folk tradition.
“Our position on the map of music and culture”, he has written, “is exactly on the spot where East and West meet.” It is this special vantage point that fires his creative imagination.
Restrictions on creative freedom in the Soviet era meant that
