A Classical Composer in Film Score-Aram Khachaturian

This is an arrangement of the marvelous Sabre Dance of Aram Khachaturian from his ballet Gayaneh .I wrote the adaptation in Double-Bass Quartet format.

                                                           

Aram Khachaturian was an Armenian (URSS) composer famous for his Cello and Violin concertos and especially for his Ballets  Spartacus and Gayaneh. To this last belongs the greatly famous Sabre Dance that has been widely used in popular culture around the world. Master Khachaturian used elements of armenian folk music to develop his language, highly rhythmic, and rich of color ,but at the same time with a strong European romantic period root, as in his aforementioned violin and cello concerts. But Aram Khachaturian also composed music to films alongside orchestral, chamber and incidental music Admiral Ushakov 1953, Pepo 1935,  Prisoner No.217, Undying Flame (Bonfire of Immortality), The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)  among others demonstrated  the versatility and genius of the Armenian composer and his enormous commitment with the music and culture of his land whose roots always was present in all his works.

 I leave you a link to the CD of the Khachaturian film music