Publication Details:

Հիմնարար հայագիտություն ՀՀ ԳԱԱ էլեկտրոնային պարբերականն է, որը հրատարակվում է Հայագիտական հիմնադրամի ֆինանսական աջակցությամբ: Հանդեսի պարբերականությունը տարեկան երկու համար է:Հանդեսն ընդգրկում է հոդվածներ, գրախոսություններ և այլ նյութեր, նվիրված հայագիտության ամենատարբեր ոլորտների արդիական խնդիրներին (պատմություն, լեզու, գրականություն, հնագիտություն, ազգագրություն, փիլիսոփայություն, տնտեսագիտություն, իրավունք, ազգային անվտանգություն և այլն):

Journal or Publication Title:

Հիմնարար հայագիտություն=Fundamental Armenology

Date of publication:

2025

Volume:

2 (22)

ISSN:

1829-4618

Official URL:

Contributor(s):

Translated from Russian by Gevorg Harutyunyan

Coverage:

185-193

Abstract:

During the most tragic period of his life, in the days of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, Komitas (1869–1935) – the pioneer of Armenian music – got a mental disorder in exile and was in the psychiatric hospital of Paris. The advanced representatives of the Armenian intelligentsia undertook the care of the composer, helping as far as possible to bring him back to life. Russian composer Th. Hartmann and the “Society after Komitas” based in Tiflis also provided certain support in this regard. Besides Hovhannes Tumanyan, Yeghishe Tadevosyan, Spiridon Mikaelyan, Russian poet Sergey Gorodetsky, other representatives of the Armenian and Russian intelligentsia living in Tiflis, one of the inspirers and initiators of the creation of the Society was Russian composer (of German origin), musicologist and conductor Thomas Hartmann (1885–1956). By coincidence, having arrived in Tiflis at the beginning of February 1919, he took an active part in the musical and public life of the city, established friendly and creative ties with the representatives of the Armenian intelligentsia. The result of this was that soon in the issues of the newspaper “Zakavkazskoe Slovo” on February 28 and March 1, 1919, his voluminous, deep and valuable article “Komitas Vardapet” from the series “Folk Song and Its Gatherers” was published which, in fact, is one of the first serious studies about Komitas. On March 29, a lecture concert was held dedicated to the oeuvre of Komitas, where Th. Hartmann made a substantive report on the life and activities of Komitas. From that day on, the efforts of the broad circles of the Tiflis intelligentsia launched, aimed at the care of the sick composer, publishing and preserving his creative heritage. Thus, in early May 1919, the “Society after Komitas” was founded in Tiflis, where Armenian, Russian, Georgian composers, performers, writers and painters of Tiflis were engaged.

Publisher:

ՀՀ ԳԱԱ

Format:

pdf

Language:

en