Richard Yardumian

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Richard Yardumian (April 5, 1917 – August 15, 1985) was an Armenian-American classical music composer. His personal style drew on Armenian themes and the counterpoint of Bach. Many of his works are organized around a method of twelve-tone composition, unrelated to that of Schoenberg, based on stacks of alternating major and minor thirds, which he invented and called the "chromatic quadratic" method; early works using this method were highly chromatic, while later works are more polymodal. Yardumian was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of ten children to Armenian immigrant parents, and began studying the piano at a very early age. His mother, Lucia, was a teacher and organist, and his father, the Rev. Haig Yardumian, was the founding pastor of the Philadelphia Armenian Evangelical community, which later became the Armenian Martyrs' Congregational Church, now located in Havertown, PA. Very little has been written about Yardumian's early life, but it is known that his family's household was busy and musical. Elijah Yardumian, a concert pianist and a product of the Curtis Institute, served as a musical mentor to his younger brother Richard, who began composing at age 14 and began a formal study of piano, harmony, theory and counterpoint at age 21. He was only 19 when he wrote his most popular piece, The Armenian Suite. This work, later recorded by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Utah Symphony, the Bournemouth Symphony, and the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, was a

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Yardumian: Symphony No. 2 / Violin Concerto / Armenian Suite

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Richard Yardumian: Symphony No. 2 "Psalms" & Armenian Suite

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Yardumian: Armenian Suite & Desolate City & Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 2 "Psalms" (Remastered)

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Yardumian: Symphony No. 1 & Violin Concerto (2023 Remastered Version)

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Armenian Suite and Symphony No.2 (Utah Symphony Orchestra, Varujan Kojian cond.; Lili Chookasian, contralto)

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Mennin,Yardumian-Split Release

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Richard Yardumian: Come, Creator Spirit

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Yardumian: Come, Creator Spirit - A New Mass in English (2023 Remastered Version)

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Richard Yardumian, Symphony No. 2

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Armenian Suite and Symphony No.2

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Come, Creator Spirit: A New Mass in English

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Symphony No. 2 etc. (Soloists, Singapore SO, Shui)

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