Nicol Galanderian

Nicol Galanderian (Armenian: Նիկոլ Գասպարի Գալանդերյան[a]; also Nikol Kalanderian; September 7, 1881 – March 2, 1944) was a noted composer of Armenian music known for vocal, choral and children's works with a compositional basis of folk music and urban folksong.

[2] In 1900 Galanderian began studies under the noted Armenian composer Komitas Vardapet at the Gevorgian Seminary.

In 1910, he accepted a teaching position in Tiflis, Georgia, and in 1911 began his composing career with his first composition based on a text of Avetik Isahakyan Yerger ou verker ("Songs and Wounds").

His works draw upon the poetry of Vahan Terian, Hovhannes Toumanian, Avetik Isahakyan and others.

His work includes the operas Parvana (a lake in Georgia), Hovik ("Breeze") and Lalvari vors ("Lalvar's Prey").