Canon
Where to start with Khachaturian
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralGayane Suite no. 1
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Keyboard10 Pieces for the Young Pianist
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Vocal3 Concert Arias, for high voice and orchestra
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StageGayane — Ballet
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ChamberLezginka, for chamber ensemble
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OrchestralViolin Concerto in D minor
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OrchestralMasquerada
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OrchestralPiano Concerto in D flat major
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OrchestralSpartacus Suite 1, op. 82a
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Orchestral2 Pieces on Themes from Uzbek Folk Songs, for wind orchestra
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Keyboard2 Stucke, for piano
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VocalBallad of the Motherland, for baritone and orchestra
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OrchestralCello Concerto in E minor
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KeyboardChildren's Album
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OrchestralConcerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra in D minor
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Khachaturian's catalogueMost Popular
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Sabre Dance (from Gayaneh ballet)
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Violin Concerto in D minor
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Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (from Spartacus ballet)
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Masquerade Suite
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Piano Concerto in D-flat major
Most Acclaimed
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Violin Concerto
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Piano Concerto
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Symphony No. 2 ”The Bell”Stalin-era war symphony
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Cello Concerto in E minor
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Spartacus (complete ballet)
Most Weird
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Symphony No. 2 ”The Bell”the slow movement has a tolling bell that drones underneath the entire movement — oppressive and hypnotic
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Sonatina for Pianofolk idioms treated with unusual harmonic freedom
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Trio for clarinet, violin and pianoearly work; more astringent than his later style
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Gayaneh Act 2the full ballet — the Sabre Dance is one minute out of two hours of very strange Soviet ballet
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Cello Concertoalmost never played — the most introspective thing he wrote
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 54
- Orchestral
- ● Gayane Suite no. 1
- ● Violin Concerto in D minor
- Masquerada
- Piano Concerto in D flat major
- Spartacus Suite 1, op. 82a
- 2 Pieces on Themes from Uzbek Folk Songs, for wind orchestra
- Cello Concerto in E minor
- Concerto-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra in D minor
- Concerto-Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra in D flat major
- Concerto-Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra in B flat minor
- Dance Suite
- Festive Poem
- Flute Concerto
- Gayane Suite no. 2
- Gayane Suite no. 3
- Greetings Overture, for orchestra
- Lermontov
- March of the Soviet Militia
- Ode in Memory of Vladimir Ilich Lenin
- Othello — Film score
- Russian Fantasy
- Spartacus Suite 2, op. 82b
- Spartacus Suite 3, op. 82c
- Spartacus Suite 4, op. 82d
- Symphony no. 2, in A minor, "Symphony with Bells"
- Symphony no. 3, in C, "Symphony-Poem"
- The Battle of Stalingrad
- The Valencian Widow
- Triumphal Fanfares, for trumpets and drums, in F
- Keyboard
- 10 Pieces for the Young Pianist
- 2 Stucke, for piano
- Children's Album
- Nocturne
- Piano Sonata in E flat major
- Suite for 2 pianos
- Toccata in E flat minor, op. 11
- Vocal
- 3 Concert Arias, for high voice and orchestra
- Ballad of the Motherland, for baritone and orchestra
- Ode of Joy, for mezzo-soprano, chorus, violin ensemble, harp ensemble, and orchestra
- Song of the Ashnug, for chorus and orchestra, "Poem about Stalin"
- Stage
- Gayane — Ballet
- Spartacus — Ballet
- Zangezur
- Chamber
- Lezginka, for chamber ensemble
- Oriental Dance, for harp
- Oriental Dance, for solo harp
- Prelude, for guitar
- Sonata-Fantasy in C major, for cello solo
- Sonata-Monologue, for solo violin
- Sonata-pesnya, for viola
- Song-Poem, ‘In Honour of an Ashugh’, for violin and piano
- Toccata, for harp
- Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano in G minor
- Violin Sonata in G minor, op. 1