Հովհաննես Նալբանդյան. հայ առաջին խոշոր ջութակահարը

Abstract

Outstanding violinist and pedagogue, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1926), Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1937) Hovhannes Romanovich Nalbandyan (Hovhannes Arakelovich, 1871–1942) is the brightest symbol of Armenian-Russian musical ties. Born in Simferopol (Crimea), he lived and acted in St. Petersburg for many years. The northern capital of Russia became his second homeland. A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Professor H. R. Nalbandyan taught for 47 years at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and then at the Leningrad Conservatory. Through Nalbandyan, the connection between the Auer violin school and the Soviet violin art was realized. In the fall of 1890, he made his first appearance at an Armenian student evening. It was then that fellow students convinced him to change the ending of his surname “ov” to “yan” so that everyone would know that he was an Armenian. Director of the St. Petersburg Conservatory A. Rubinstein approved this intention and ordered all the papers to be redone.