Mansurian Tigran. Sonata for piano

New York: Associated Music Publishers, 1977. — 9 p.Tigran Mansurian (b.1939) is an Armenian Composer. Mansurian was born in Beirut. His family moved to Armenia in 1947 and settled in Yerevan in 1956, where he was educated. He studied first at the Romanos Melikian Music School under the Armenian composer Edvard Baghdasaryan and later at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory.
During Mansurian’s prolific creative output from the 1960s to the early 1980s, he was considered a representative of the non-conformist direction in Soviet music, along with Denisov, Gubaidulina, Schnittke, Silvestrov, Pärt, and many others. For many Armenian composers of the 20th century, Mansurian’s ‘silent’ music was a fresh and innovative direction that strayed from the influence of Khachaturian’s ‘supra-emotional and extrovert manner’. In his youth, Mansurian tried his hand at twelve-tone technique and pointillism, which were popular at the time. These techniques are especially vivid in his Piano Sonata and the Three Pieces as well as the string quartet. After 1980, his writing style changed to become more traditional, with a tendency to emphasise Armenian national elements and a nostalgic mood.
difficulty, for concert performance