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Alan Hovhaness
 
Date of birth: 08 March 1911
Date of death: 21 June 2000
Country Of Origin: America
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Composer

Biography:
    Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an United States composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation. The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American .... (More...)
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" Actually, however, I was not the American Sibelius. This was a mistake. I was far too Armenian to be compared to Sibelius. "

Alan Hovhaness
" After 1942 I became closely connected with Yenovk Der Hagopian, who was a fine singer of folk music, a fine troubadour type of singer. A singer of Sayat Nova. A singer in pure style. "

Alan Hovhaness
" Also, many very good records of contemporary music have been allowed to disappear. They don't recut them even when they are successful. "

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" I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living. "

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" I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it. "

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" I had been composing but I didn't know I was. When I realized that this was what I had been doing, I began to take it seriously. "

Alan Hovhaness
" I never use a theme without stating that I borrowed the material for some commission where they wanted this used. "

Alan Hovhaness
" I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place. "

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" I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood. "

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" I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way. "

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" I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God. "

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" In back of the house where I was born there was an attic and from there you could see a poorhouse. I remember that very clearly. "

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" It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century. "

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" My father and mother had a fight about it and they chose Alan because Elam was the neighboring country to Armenia in ancient times, and because Alan is Scotch also, so they made a compromise on that. "

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" My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland. "

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