Khachaturian: Works
Khachaturian's Etude No. 5 (called Ivan is Very Busy) is a piece from his Children's Album, Volume One, a set of ten pieces for solo piano published in 1947.
Masquerade was written in 1941 as incidental music for a production of the play of the same name by Russian poet and playwright Mikhail Lermontov. It premiered on 21 June 1941 in the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. The Waltz is a well-known theme.
About the play by cellist Courtney Van Cleef.
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) was a prominent Soviet Armenian composer and conductor who studied and taught at the famed Moscow Conservatory. Many of his works were influenced by Armenian folk music, and his output includes ballets, symphonies, concertos, and numerous film scores. His colorful orchestral technique was admired by Shostakovich and others, and he had a profound influence on subsequent Armenian music.
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