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The Armenian composer Armen Tigranyan (1879–1950) was born in Alexandropol (modern Gyumri) in the region of northwestern Armenia that was then part of the Transcaucasian Republic of the Russian Empire. He was educated in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi, Georgia) then the capital of that republic, and entered its musical conservatory in 1887. He was moved to write an opera based on Hovhannes T‘umanyan’s “Anush” soon after he first read the poem. He began his work in 1904 and completed it in 1908. The opera is now known and ...