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Anahit Tsitsikian

Anahit Tsitsikian
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Anahit Tsitsikian statue
Background information
Born (1926-08-26)26 August 1926
Leningrad, USSR
Died 2 May 1999(1999-05-02) (aged 72)
Genres Classical
Occupation(s) Violinist, musicologist, teacher
Instruments Violin

Anahit Tsitsikian (Armenian: Անահիտ Ցիցիկյան; born Leningrad, August 26, 1926; death Yerevan, May 2, 1999) was the first renowned Armenian female violinist. She toured around the world through more than 100 cities during the Soviet times; she taught at the State Conservatory for approximately 40 years and wrote more than 300 articles and scenarios for television and radio programs. She was also a scholar who established a new branch of Armenian musicology, history of performing art, and dedicated the last twenty years of her life to research in the field of ancient music history, becoming the founder of a new branch of Armenian musical archaeology.

Tsitsikian was Merited Artist of Armenia or People's Artist of Armenian SSR (1967), PhD of Musical Science (1970) and Professor of Music (1982).

Anahit Tsitsikian was born in Leningrad (currently St. Petersburg), Russia, into a family of an engineer and a doctor. She began playing the violin at the age of six. Her teachers were musician Grigory Ginzburg and later on professor Lev Moiseyevich Zeitlin (). At the beginning of World War II, at the age of fifteen, she left Leningrad for Armenia. Her birthplace left an unforgettable mark on her development as a person and musician. She remained an individual with fine tastes and a careful and sincere approach and attitude toward historical legacy; and she was gentle and respectful toward her friends, colleagues and students.

She studied at the Yerevan State Conservatory from 1946–1950 as a student of Professor Karp Dombayev. She was granted the Stalin Scholarship. In 1954 she completed her graduate course at the Moscow State Conservatory (adviser - Professor Konstantin Mostras).


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