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Apr 17, 1885 Tekirdağ, Turkey Died on 21 May 1967 (aged 82)
Armenian musician
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About Barsegh Kanachyan
- Parsegh Ganatchian (in Armenian ?????? ????????, pronounced Barsegh Kanachyan in Eastern Armenian) (born in Tekirdag, Ottoman Empire, April 17, 1885 – died in Beirut, Lebanon, May 21, 1967) was a Lebanese-Armenian composer and conductor.
- He most notably arranged the music to "Mer Hayrenik", the Armenian national anthem, as well as to a famous traditional Armenian lullaby "Oror Im Palas" (in Armenian ???? ?? ?????).
- He is founder and director/conductor of "Knar" wind orchestra and the "Gusan" (in Western Armenian "Kousan") choirs in Istanbul and the similarly named "Gusan" choir (1933 -1961) in Beirut.
- He was awarded with the National Order of the Cedar, a high Lebanese presidential award for promoting friendship between the Armenian and Lebanese peoples.
