“Thomas Buchholz The "Armenia Clamans" Cantata”

Authors

  • Svetlana Koryun Sarkisyan Yerevan State Conservatory

Keywords:

Book of Lamentations, Buchholz, sacred music, , sacred tradition

Abstract

PhD Doctor , Professor of YSC Svetlana Koryun Sarkisyan. - “Thomas Buchholz The "Armenia Clamans" Cantata”. The article was first introduced in 2015 at the Conference of the Union of Composers of Armenia dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The "Armenia Clamans" Cantata is written for two oboes, a narrator, and a mixed choir. Thomas Buchholz (b. 1961), a modern German composer, used the Latin text of the Fifth chapter of the "Book of Lamentations", and the documentary testimonies of eyewitnesses who survived the Genocide of 1915-1918 (texts are narrated in German and Armenian versions). The article analyzes the structure and the compositional style of the sixpart cantata. Cantata was written and first performed in Yerevan in 1999 by the Yerevan State Chamber Choir under the direction of Harutyun Topikyan. In the epilogue author comments on Buchholz's interest in the Armenian religious culture  

Author Biography

Svetlana Koryun Sarkisyan , Yerevan State Conservatory

studied at the YSC and completed postgraduate studies at the St. Petersburg State Conservatory, where she obtained her PhD in 1975 with a thesis entitled "Development of Armenian Music in the 60s years of the 20th Century. Later, in 1999, she earned the title of Dr. Hab. of Musicology from the Moscow State Conservatory with a thesis entitled" Armenian Music in the Context of the 20th Century. From 1974 to the present, she has been Professor of Chair of Music Theory at the YSC. She has also lectured at music academies and conservatories in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Vilnius, Lvov, Maikop. She has participated at 68 symposia in Armenia, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Great Britain, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Lithuania. Author of books: Problems of Contemporary Armenian Music., (In Russian), Yerevan, 1983; Armenian Music in the Context of the 20th Century. Research. Moscow, 2002; Armenian Music and Composers., (In Russian), London-Yerevan, 2004 (In English); Aram Khachaturyan, Reference Book. Yerevan, 2004 (In Russian, Armenian, English); At the Boundary of Centuries. Music and its Spheres. Moscow, 2014 (In Russian, Armenian, English, French, German) and about of 500 scientific articles in Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, Georgian, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, German, Croatian, Czech, Lebanon collections and journals. She has written articles on Armenian music and musicians in The Music Encyclopedia and Musical Dictionary (Moscow), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Ed. by S. Sadie, London, 1980), Grove Dictionary of Opera (London, 1992), Contemporary Composers (Ed. by P. Collins, B. Morton, London-Chicago, 1992), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians II. Rev.Ed. (Ed. by S. Sadie & J. Tyrrell, London, 2001) and Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Ed. by L. Finscher, Kassel), edited and compiled a few monographs and collections of scientific articles. Member of Union of Armenian Composers (Yerevan, 1975), International Music Union (Moscow, 2004). She was awarded the Honoured Worker of Culture of Armenia (Yerevan, 2009), Honoured for Polish Culture (Poland, 2013).  

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Published

2020-11-20

How to Cite

Sarkisyan С. К. (2020). “Thomas Buchholz The "Armenia Clamans" Cantata”. Musical Armenia, 1(58), 76–80. Retrieved from https://yerazhshtakanhayastan.am/index.php/ma/article/view/180

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 58 (2020): Musical Armenia

Section

Articles