MONUMENTS

1988

State index: 1.6.124
Architect: Phoenix Darbinyan
Sculptor: Ara Harutyunyan

The great Armenian composer, musicologist, teacher and conductor Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonyan, 1869-1935) is the founder of the Armenian national compositional school. He recorded thousands of songs, saving the musical culture of the Armenian people from oblivion and presented it to the world, proving that the Armenians have their own and unique national music. On January 29, 2024, by a unanimous decision of the UNESCO Executive Board, the collection of Komitas' works was registered in the international register "Memory of the World". The monument to Komitas is located in the center of Yerevan, on Sayat-Nova Avenue, in the park in front of the Conservatory building named after him. The ceremonial opening of the monument took place on January 8, 1988.

The 3-meter-high bronze statue of Komitas is placed on a round granite platform. The sculpture depicts Komitas, a survivor of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, grieving and worried, sitting on the trunk of an uprooted, but still clinging to the ground, dried-up apricot tree with branches. The figure is built with a harmonious combination of delicately crafted facial sculpture and generalized body shapes. The composition is characterized by scale and lyricism.