Ekimyan composer Wikipedia Biography

Father left his family. Grew up in the family of the mother’s brother - the military. In the year in Yerevan, Ekimyan, in addition to a regular school, began to study in a musical one, played the violin, but he could not continue his education. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he threw education in both schools and, in order to feed himself, worked on the railway. From the year he participated in the restoration of Kharkov, where he made friends with former front -line soldiers who advised him to go to work in the police.

At their insistence, he graduated from Kharkov an evening school. In the year, Yerevan returned and went to work in the police. In the year he was sent to study at the Police Secondary School in Vladimir. During his studies, he began to participate in the amateur performances of the school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he met the future wife Valentina Mikhailovna Karpova, who sang in the choir.

In the year, for the Youth International Festival in Moscow, he composes the first work-“Festival Waltz”, which received 1st place and honorary diploma at the festival of amateur performances of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since the year, after graduation, - senior lieutenant, head of the Red Building Department of the police of the Moscow region.

He served in Biryulev, Serpukhov. In the year, Lieutenant Colonel headed the criminal investigation department of the Moscow region. Due to its principledness and the ability to restore order in the areas, he quickly made a career, rose to the general rank. Colleagues in uniform did not even imagine that in the evenings he was writing music. In the year he wrote the first song “Accident” to the verses of a neighbor in the house of E.

Dolmatovsky, who sounded on the radio only in the year, thanks to the performance and record of Anna German. In the year, he receives the title “Major General” ahead of schedule. The first secretary Tikhon Khrennikov personally handed the membership card. In March, he gave the first big creative evening in the Moscow Cinema House. At the end of the same year, he submitted a report on a response due to illness.

Organizes a small creative team, which includes concerts in the country. He meets Robert Rozhdestvensky, with whom he begins to cooperate. In the year, a “wish” record came out with Yu songs by Ekimyan performed by Vakhtang Kikabidze. Having lived two destinies - the general and composer, A. Ekimyan remained a modest person. So, many acquaintances of Ekimyan only after his death learned about his great glory in Armenia.

Back in the beginning of the X, having created several Armenian cycles - about 80 songs to the words of Armenian poets - he became a national hero in Armenia.

In the years, Alexei Gurgenovich received the title of Honored Artist of Armenia. Alexey Gurgenovich suffered three heart attacks. The state of health was influenced by the complexity of his work in the threat, as well as the creative throwing of the composer. Ekimyan died suddenly on April 24 in the hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, without living until 55 years.

The cause of death was heart disease. At the insistence of the Armenian government, he was buried in Yerevan - in the Pantheon of a particularly revered cemetery in the city.