ARAM XACHATRYAN

Aram Khachaturyan , born in Tiflis, was a Soviet-Armenian composer whose works were often influenced by Armenian folk music. Aram Ilyich Khachaturyan was born in Tiflis, Imperial Russia (now Tbilisi, Georgia) to a poor Armenian family. In his youth, he was fascinated by the music he heard around him, but at first he did not study music or learn to read it. In 1921 he traveled to Moscow to join his brother, the stage director of the Second Moscow Art Theatre. Although he had almost no musical education, Khac