# Robert Atayan

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'''Robert Arshaki Atayan''' ({{langx|hy|Ռոբերտ Աթայան}}; 7 (20) November 1915{{spaced ndash}}4 March 1994)<ref>{{cite web|last=Wolverton|first=Cynthia Kay|title=The Contributions of Armenian Composers to the Clarinet Repertoire|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3299/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf|publisher=[University of North Texas](/source/University_of_North_Texas)|accessdate=14 February 2014|date=December 2002|page=39}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Աթայան, Ռոբերտ Արշակի, 1915-1994 (Personal Name)|url=http://opac.flib.sci.am/cgi-bin/koha/opac-authoritiesdetail.pl?authid=5368|publisher=[Armenian Academy of Sciences](/source/Armenian_Academy_of_Sciences)|accessdate=19 February 2014|language=hy}}</ref> was an [Armenian](/source/Armenians) [musicologist](/source/musicologist) and composer.

He was born in [Tehran](/source/Tehran), Iran and later moved to Soviet Armenia. He completed the [Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory](/source/Yerevan_Komitas_State_Conservatory) in 1941 and since 1944 taught there.<ref>{{cite book|contribution=Աթայան Ռոբերտ [Atayan Robert]|language=hy|title=[Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia](/source/Soviet_Armenian_Encyclopedia)|publisher=Armenian Encyclopedia|location=Yerevan|editor=[Hambardzumyan, Viktor](/source/Viktor_Hambardzumyan)|volume=1|page=127}}</ref> He authored several important works on the Armenian system of [musical notation](/source/musical_notation) called ''[khaz](/source/khaz_(notation))''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Atʻayan|first=Ṙobert|title=Armenian neume system of notation: study and analysis|date=1997|publisher=Curzon Press|location=Richmond, England|isbn=9780700706365|translator=[Vrej Nersessian](/source/Vrej_Nersessian)|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FJ0KuhmKpMAC&dq=%D5%A1%D5%A9%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%A1%D5%B6+1994&pg=PP3 |chapter=Intro |page=3}}</ref> He spent almost thirty years researching [Komitas](/source/Komitas)'s work and was the main editor of the ''Collected Works of Komitas'' in fourteen volumes (Yerevan, 1960–2006). He is recognized as the foremost authority of Komitas's art.<ref>{{cite web|title=Researchers of Komitas|url=http://www.komitas.am/eng/researchers_komitas.htm|publisher=Komitas Virtual Museum|access-date=19 February 2014}}</ref>

Atayan died in [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPSF-WV4|title=FamilySearch.org|website=[FamilySearch](/source/FamilySearch) |accessdate=19 July 2023}}</ref> He was buried in Yerevan.

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Category:Musicians from Tehran
Category:Iranian emigrants to the Soviet Union
Category:Iranian people of Armenian descent
Category:Armenian musicologists
Category:1915 births
Category:1994 deaths
Category:20th-century musicologists

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