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Alan Hovhaness Biography

Alan Hovhaness (/hoʊˈvɑːnɪs/; March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an Armenian-American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers. The true tally is well over 500 surviving works since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works.

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It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Century, Particularly, Sympathy, Think, Thinking

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of. . . well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

Depressing, Fine, Grandfather, People, Scots

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Arlington, Born, Childhood, Five, Old, Years

I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

All Kinds, Earn, Kind, Living, Order, Things

My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound.

Beautiful, Healing, People, Sound, Spirit

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

Clothing, God, Nature, Regarded, Religion, Travel

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

Place, Symphonies, Symphony, Think, Thinking

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.

Become, Orchestra, Piano, Proficient, Talent, Teacher

There is nothing like practice.

Like, Nothing, Practice

I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

Armenian, Culture, Emotion, Emotions, Identity, Older

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

Family, Mother, New York, Scotland, Scottish

The composer. . . joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Earth, Heaven, Joins, Sound, Threads

The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

Emotional, Greater, Intensity, Simplicity

To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists. The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.

Earth, Everything, Moon, Sun