Sergei Aslamazyan

Sergei Zakharovich Aslamazyan, also Aslamazian (Սերգեյ Զաքարի Ասլամազյան, Серге́й Захарович Асламазя&#769;н; 27 January 1897 – 27 September 1978) was a Soviet Armenian cellist, composer, People's Artist of Armenian SSR (1945), awarded the Stalin Prize (1946). He was a co-founder and a member of Komitas Quartet from 1925 to 1968. He was the author of quartet versions of Komitas works. From 1947 he was a professor at Moscow State Conservatory.

Selected works

 * Melodie for viola and piano
 * Suite on Armenian Folk Songs for string quartet (1950)
 * Variations on a Theme by Paganini for string quartet (1961)