DLE YAMAN ON SHVI(Emil Orbelyan)

This melody is from a beautiful Armenian love song/tragedy, written over hundred years ago, recorded and preserved by a prominent Armenian priest, ethnologist, composer teacher and musician Komitas, who was born in 1869 and miraculously survived the Armenian Genocide that was meticulously planed and executed by Turkish government in 1915. But seeing the brutal slotter of his own nation, he lost his mind and died on October 22 1935 in Paris. The monument that was built in Paris in honor of Komitas, has become a solemn reminder of one of the most bloody and barbaric acts in the history of humanity, that took more then 1.5 Million innocent lives.
It is performed by Emil Orbelyan.

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