Ակնարկ՝ երաժշտագէտ-մանկավարժ Հեղինէ Քացախեանի կեանքի եւ գործունէութեան
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2010
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The author brings to the limelight the pedagogical activity of Heghine Katsakhian, who had a significant input in the development of a number of musicians and composers in Soviet Armenia and in the promotion of children's music.
Born in Tbilisi in 1908/09, Katsakhian studied in the newly inaugurated Yerevan Musical Studio under the able directorship of Romanos Melikian. In parallel, she attended the piano classes of Anna Mnatsakanian. After graduating from school, she started working as a piano and music teacher in a kindergarten while she continued her studies in the newly inaugurated Yerevan Conservatory.
In 1931 she graduated from the Conservatory and started working in the first professional music school in Armenia. She taught theory and conducted the school choir. Several renowned musicians graduated from this school, including Edward Mirzoyan, Alexander Harutunian, Adam Khudoyan, Ghazaros Sarian, Gagik Hovunts, Edgar Hovhannissian, Robert Amirkhanian, Martin Vartazarian and many others.
The author narrates the dedication of Katsakhian to music and pedagogy and the effort she put into persuading Armenian composers to compose children's songs and music.
Katsakhian's main contribution, however, was in the field of school textbooks. After dedicating herself totally to schoolwork in 1932, she published her methodology textbook, Solfegio in 1959. This was the first musical textbook that includied Armenian compositions. In some fifteen years the book had seven reprints with a total of over thirty-five thousand copies, and it is still being used in Yerevan and musical schools elsewhere.
The author assessed the textbook along with a number of similar Armenian textbooks that were published after 1874 and asserts that Katsakhian approached Armenian music teaching in an innovative way and enriched its traditions.
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Յարութիւնեան, Ն., «Ակնարկ՝ երաժշտագէտ-մանկավարժ Հեղինէ Քացախեանի կեանքի եւ գործունէութեան», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2010, Պէյրութ, էջ 613-624