Aram Khachaturian
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Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.
Khachaturian in 1971
The building at 93 Uznadze Street in Tbilisi, where Khachaturian lived between 1906 and 1922
Khachaturian in 1964
Khachaturian used the "raw material" made available by Komitas (pictured), who in the early 20th century collected thousands of pieces of Armenian folk music.
Nina Makarova
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Nina Vladimirovna Makarova was a Russian composer who had great interest in Russian and Mari folksongs. She studied under Nikolai Myaskovsky, like composer Aram Khachaturian, whom she married in 1933.
Aram Khachaturian
…Khachaturian married twice. He had a daughter, Nune, from his first marriage with Ramel. Nune was a pianist. Khachaturian married the composer Nina Makarova, a fellow student from Myaskovsky's class at the Moscow Conservatory, in 1933. Charlotte Curtis described her as "a bulky Russian woman with naturally…
Aram Khachaturian and Nina Makarova in the Netherlands in 1971