Avet Gabrielyan

Avet Ter-Gabrielyan (Armenian: Ավդեյ Տեր-Գաբրիելյան, April 7, 1899 - June 19, 1983) was an Armenian violinist.

The Avet Gabrielyan Music School in Yerevan is named in his honor.

Avet Ter-Gabrielyan was born on April 19, 1899 in Nor Nakhichevan (now Proletarsky City District, Rostov-on-Don).

He studied violin with LM Tseytlina and Nicholas Averino (father of soprano Olga Averino) in Rostov before continuing his studies at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.

In November 1924, Gabrielyan co-founded the Komitas Quartet. He was the quartet's first violin from 1925 to 1976.

Served with ensembles KN Igumnovym, GG Neygauzom.

Aram Khachaturian devoted its first published piece, "Dance" (1933) to him.

Gabrielyan taught at the Moscow Conservatory.

Gabrielyan died on June 19, 1983 in Moscow.