Komitas/ Ayrapetyan - Songs AEC Video including the BBC and Italy's

including the BBC and Italy's RAI Radio 3

and the esteemed composer

from the black dog of depression to gallows humour

Composers and publishers in Beethoven's day sought to indulge the pleasures of the middle class: dozens of arrangements and transcriptions of orchestral works were in wide circulation for domestic use

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Komitas/ Ayrapetyan - Songs AEC Video including the BBC and Italy'sKomitas was a priest, a musician and a pioneer of ethnomusicology, considered to be the founder of the Armenian national school of music. A significant part of his life was taken up with travel to remote villages, collecting thousands of traditional songs. These range from simple melodies and poetic sketches of Armenian landscapes, to dramatic lyrics expressing mournful tragedy. Komitas was enthralled by the way 'a peasant learns this art in nature's