Sargis Barkhudaryan

Their house was near an open marketplace and here Sargis heard different tunes sung by vendors, which he was able to reproduce on various folk instruments.

Finally, a piano was purchased and Sargis began to take private lessons, initially from Sofia Karakhanyan and later at the local music school, where he eventually enrolled in the class of Lyutsan Lyutsanovich Truskovsku.

In 1900, Sargis’s mother Vartuhi sent the young man to Armenia to become familiar with his native culture.

In 1907, like Komitas before him, Barkhudaryan left for Berlin, Germany, to refine his musical education.

In the beginning, he studied the piano privately with Prof. Schultz but shortly he joined the student body of the Royal Conservatory itself.