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Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American 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...


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Alan Hovhaness ( March 8 , 1911 – June 21 , 2000 ) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish ancestry. Sourced My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese...


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Musical Times
In memoriam: Alan Hovhaness
10/01/2000: 570 words, approx. 2 pages
Alan Hovhaness, an American composer of Scottish-Armenian descent, wrote music throughout his long life, and reached a grand total of 434 opuses. Doubtless many of his pieces are music for use in the very best sense of that phrase; but with a handful of...
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The Independent - London
Obituary: Alan Hovhaness
06/26/2000: 1,160 words, approx. 4 pages
ALAN HOVHANESS was one of the most prolific composers in the history of music, a man with a Baroque prolixity: music flowed from him as naturally as leaves sprout on a tree. He leaves something like 500 compositions, most of them large-scale - not...
 


 

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