Rostom Aramovic Alagian

Rostom Aramovic Alagian (1916–2009) was a Georgian composer and Maestro.

His father was an Armenian from Konstantinoupole Aram Alagian and his mother Greek, also from the same town Eleni Pozidou.

He was born on 20 of May 1916 in Tbilisi, Georgia and died in Erevan at 13 of April 2009. He studied composing at the Military Music Academy of Moscow under Dmitri Shostakovich.

From 1939 until 1946 he fought as a captain of the special forces of the Soviet Union Army in the territories from Mantzouria to Crimea against the German fascists. The Soviet Union honoured him many times for his services at the Great Patriotic War.

From 1962 was president of the Veteran War Council of the 1941 war. R. Alagian was also for many years general director of all the orchestras for the territories of Vladicaucas, Georgia and Armenia. His works have been played many times in Moscow, Tbilisi, Erevan and elsewhere. He composed great poets like Alexander Blok, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Glan Onanian etc. He wrote cantatas, elegies and various songs. He wrote the symphonic poem Crimea - Stalingrad - Pribaltica (released by Melodia of Moscow in 33" disks). Also the cantata Lime Flame Of Memory for readers, solists, great symphonic orchestra and chorus. His last greatest symphonic work Alexander The Great, Hymn To The Ancient Greece which is wedding present to his daughter Louisa and his son-in-law Christo Voulgaridi was written in 1996 at Thessaloniki which had many times visited.

He composed one fanfarn Mars specially for τηε 1500 years anniversary of Tbilisi, Mars Moscow - Berlin for the 70 years of the October Revolution and some others for the youth. His music's morphology, tone and color comes from archegone womb of his eastern origin.

Discography

References

Louisa and Christos Voulgaridis http://www.exlibris-oldbooks.com

State Orchestra of Thessaloniki 23-12-1996