Gevorg Geodakyan

Gevorg Geodakyan
Born 12 August 1928
Yerevan
Died 20 December 2015
Alma mater Yerevan's Tchaikovsky Secondary Music School[*], Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, Moscow Conservatory
Occupation musicologist
Spouse(s) Alina Pahlevanyan[*]
Awards Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Armenia[*], Khorenatsi medal, Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR[*]

Gevorg Shmavoni Geodakyan[1] (Armenian: Գևորգ Շմավոնի Գյոդակյան; Russian: Гео́ргий Шмаво́нович Геодакя́н, tr. Georgy Shmavonovich Geodakyan;[2] 12 August 1928 – 20 December 2015) was an Armenian musicologist.[3] He headed the Music Department of the Institute of Arts of the Armenian Academy of Sciences since 1966.[3]

Born in Leninakan (present-day Gyumri),[2] Geodakyan first graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1952 and then completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1956.[4] He died on 20 December 2015 at the age of 87.[5]

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