Music in Time of War – Debussy/Komitas MYR001 a contemporary of Johannes Brahms

a contemporary of Johannes Brahms

and although there was a positive response here and there

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all masterly performed on viola

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Music in Time of War – Debussy/Komitas MYR001 a contemporary of Johannes BrahmsAbout the album Music in Time of War, the new double album from pianist Kirill Gerstein, places the music of Komitas, pioneer of ethnomusi cology and founder of the Armenian national school of music, alongside that of Claude Debussy, a seminal composer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who held a deep admiration of Komitass music. Both composers were profoundly affected by the implosion of their worlds Komitas by the Armenian Genocide, Debussy