Komitas_Garun a / Կոմիտաս_Գարուն ա

Soghomon Gevorgi Soghomonyan, commonly known as Komitas Vardapet was an Armenian priest, composer, choir leader, singer, music ethnologist, music pedagogue and musicologist. He was born on September 26 or October 8a, 1869, in Kütahya, Ottoman Empire; died on October 22, 1935, in Paris, France. Many regard him as the founder of modern Armenian classical music. Komitas lost his mind after witnessing the 1915 Armenian Genocide and is considered a martyr of the genocide