MONUMENTS
MONUMENT TO KOMITAS
1988
State index: 1.6.124
Architect: Phoenix Darbinyan
Sculptor: Ara Harutyunyan
Komitas (Soghomon Soghomonian, 1869-1935), the renowned Armenian composer, musicologist, pedagogue, and choirmaster, is the founder of the Armenian national school of composition. He recorded several thousand songs, saving the musical culture created by the Armenian people from oblivion and presenting it to the world, proving that Armenians have their own unique national music. On January 29, 2024, by unanimous decision of the UNESCO Executive Board, the collection of Komitas’s works was registered in the International Memory of the World Register.
The monument to Komitas Vardapet is located in the city center, at the edge of Sayat-Nova Avenue, in a park organized in front of the Conservatory building bearing the composer's name. The unveiling took place on January 8, 1988.
The 3-meter-high
bronze statue of Komitas is placed on a circular granite platform. The
sculpture depicts the great Armenian son who survived the horrors of the 1915
Armenian Genocide, sorrowful and concerned, with his hands on his knees,
sitting on the trunk of an uprooted tree that still clings to the soil with
dried branches. The character is constructed through a combination of a finely
crafted portrait of a man immersed in his inner world and generalized forms of
the torso. The composition is characterized by its scale and lyricism.
“Scientific Research Centre of Historical and Cultural Heritage” SNCO
Yerevan Municipality
