Composer Alan Hovhaness

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Composer

Alan Hovhaness

Living place: Massachusetts

Birthday: 8-3-1911

Population of US 1911: 93,863,000

Global rank: #99626

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Who is Composer Alan Hovhaness?
Wrote 434 works and 67 digital symphonies, making him one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. He taught future jazz greats Sam Rivers and Gigi Gryce while a professor at the institute. Boston from 1948 to 1951.
He was looking for a fresh start with his composition in the 1930s and 1940s, so he destroyed all of his early work, numbered. up to 1,000 pieces.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he won the Samuel Endicott Award for composition in 1932.

Family life info

His father Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian was a professor of chemistry at Tufts College, and his mother Madeleine Scott was of Scottish descent and attended Wellesley College.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Composer Alan Hovhaness?
He heard a work by Franz Schubert when he was four, which led him to compose his first work.

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When was Composer Alan Hovhaness born?
Alan Hovhaness was born in 8-3-1911, death year is , at the age of 113.
Where is Composer Alan Hovhaness's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Alan Hovhaness was born in Massachusetts, . is a Composer, whose Zodiac is Pisces, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Pig. Alan Hovhaness's global rank is 99626 and whose rank is 1354 in list of famous Composer. Population of US in 1911 is about 93,863,000 persons.
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Events in 1911 and 8-3

Events in US in the birth year of Alan Hovhaness

  • Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire in New York; 146 killed. Background: Fires and Explosions
  • Supreme Court finds Standard Oil Company (May 15) and American Tobacco Company (May 29) to be in violation of Sherman Antitrust Act. Background: Antitrust, Again

Birthday Alan Hovhaness (8-3) in history

  • Day 8-3 year 1782: A peaceful settlement of Delaware Indians were massacred by militia at Gnadenhutten in Ohio.
  • Day 8-3 year 1917: Russia's February Revolution, which eventually led to the overthrow the csarist government, began.
  • Day 8-3 year 1945: Phyllis Mae Daley, the first African-American nurse to serve in World War II, received her U.S. Navy commission.
  • Day 8-3 year 1948: The Supreme Court ruled that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
  • Day 8-3 year 1950: The Soviet Union claimed to be in possession of the atomic bomb.
  • Day 8-3 year 1965: First U.S. combat troops arrived in Vietnam.
  • Day 8-3 year 1983: President Reagan called the USSR an "Evil Empire."
  • Day 8-3 year 1999: Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio died.
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