This is Aram Ilyich Khachaturian Speaking!

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“Aram Chaczaturian odpowiada na pytania ‘Ruchu Muzycznego’.” Ruch Muzyczny, no. 6, 1972, pp. 6–7.
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DOI 10.34690/356

Author Krzysztof Meyer

Abstract

The article is devoted to the 120th anniversary of Aram Khachaturian’s birth. The text describes several meetings of Polish composer Krzysztof Meyer with Aram Khachaturian between 1962 and 1975 in Warsaw, Krakow and Moscow. The author emphasizes that Khachaturian was interested in new music and was open to modernity. Significant was his friendliness towards the Warsaw Autumn Festival, which he successfully defended against the liquidation attempted by Tikhon Khrennikov and some members of the Soviet delegation in Poland. In memoirs by Krzysztof Meyer Khachaturian appears as a sympathetic human being, empathetic and also with an unusual sense of humour.

Keywords socialist realism, avant-garde, A. I. Khachaturian, history of Soviet music, Warsaw Autumn Festival

For citation

Meyer, K. “This is Aram Ilyich Khachaturian speaking!”, trans. by A. Davtyan, Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 4, 2023, pp. 218–227, doi:10.34690/356. (In Russ.)

Published 04.05.2023

Approved 25.05.2023

Submitted 21.12.2023

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