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The cover of a 1953 record of "Sabre Dance" by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra [1] "Sabre Dance" [a] is a movement in the final act of Aram Khachaturian's ballet Gayane (1942), where the dancers display their skill with sabres. [2]
The Piano Concerto was the first of three concertos Khachaturian wrote for the individual members of a renowned Soviet piano trio that performed together from 1941 until 1963. The others were the Violin Concerto for David Oistrakh (1940) and the Cello Concerto for Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (1946).
This movement is much less sinister and more life filled than the other movements. Khachaturian called that life "rest after hard labor." [2] The Andante sostenuto is the most tragic movement of the whole symphony, the most requiem-like part of the piece. Its funeral march atmosphere comes from an Armenian folk melody. Here, the climax is ...
Spartacus (Russian: «Спартак», Spartak) is a ballet by Aram Khachaturian (1903–1978). The work follows the exploits of Spartacus, the leader of the slave uprising against the Romans known as the Third Servile War, although the ballet's storyline takes considerable liberties with the historical record.
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (/ ˈ ær ə m ˌ k ɑː tʃ ə ˈ t ʊər i ə n /; [1] Russian: Арам Ильич Хачатурян, IPA: [ɐˈram ɨˈlʲjitɕ xətɕɪtʊˈrʲan] ⓘ; Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; [A] 6 June [O.S. 24 May] 1903 – 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. [5]
The ballet, based on an earlier ballet composed in 1939 by Khachaturian called Happiness, [1]: 127 was created when the Kirov ballet was in Perm. Khachaturian started composing the score in autumn 1941 [3] and the ballet was first mounted on 3 December 1942 on the small stage of the Perm state theatre. Despite these limitations, the effect was ...
Khachaturian offered a solo piano arrangement in 1952, [4] but earlier, in 1946, he had approved Alexander Doloukhanian's version for solo piano. [ 53 ] [ 19 ] The first two movements, Waltz and Nocturne, were arranged for violin and piano by Mikhail Fichtenholz and Khachaturian respectively.
This is a list of compositions by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. Ballets. Shchastye ("Happiness"; Yerevan, ...