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Levon Tadevosovich Atovmyan (or Atovmian) (Лево́н Тадево́сович Атовмя́н (Атовмья́н)) (12 May 1901 – 16 January 1973) was a Russian-Armenian composer, arranger, and arts administrator. He is best known for his arrangements of Dmitri Shostakovich’s film scores.

Biography
Atovmyan was born into an Armenian family residing in the city of Ashgabat, then part of the Russian Empire and today the capital of Turkmenistan. After the early death of his parents, the young Atovmyan traveled to Moscow, moving into the household of his sister and her husband, Viktor Kubatsky, a cellist in the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra and professor at the Gnessin Institute.

Following studies at the School of Music and Drama of the Moscow Philharmonic Society with his brother-in-law Kubatsky, Issay Dobrowen (piano), and Sergei Vasilenko (composition), Atovmyan joined the Red Army in 1919. While in the service he worked as a political instructor and editor of his army division's newspaper. He became a member of the Communist Party of Russia in 1920, but his military career came to an abrupt end when he contracted typhus that same year. After receiving his honorable discharge, Atovmyan relocated to Tbilisi where he was appointed musical director of the Russian Experimental Theatre Workshop. During this time he pursued further studies in composition with Sergey Paniev, later a leading member of the Union of Composers of Azerbaijan.

In 1929 he returned to Moscow, whereupon he was elected Executive Secretary and member of the Presidium to the All-Russian Society of Composers and Dramatic Writers, known as "Vsyeroskomdram," for the next five years. In the period 1934 – 1935 he was a theatre assistant to Vsevolod Meyerhold and Yuri Zavadsky.

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