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Levon Bohemyan or Bohemian (Armenian: Լևոն Բոհէմյան; Russian: Лев Иванович Богемян) (September 17, 1887 – March 18, 1939) was an obscured Armenian-American composer and pianist, claimed by some to be one of the finest pianists ever lived. His works are representative of the Armenian bloom of Romanticism in music. His main influences, Musorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, together with a strong Armenian nationalism and a keen ear for the traditional music of his fatherland, gave Bohemyan his very distinctive idiom.

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  • Levon Bohemyan or Bohemian (Armenian: Լևոն Բոհէմյան; Russian: Лев Иванович Богемян) (September 17, 1887 – March 18, 1939) was an obscured Armenian-American composer and pianist, claimed by some to be one of the finest pianists ever lived. His works are representative of the Armenian bloom of Romanticism in music. His main influences, Musorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, together with a strong Armenian nationalism and a keen ear for the traditional music of his fatherland, gave Bohemyan his very distinctive idiom.
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  • Levon Bohemyan or Bohemian (Armenian: Լևոն Բոհէմյան; Russian: Лев Иванович Богемян) (September 17, 1887 – March 18, 1939) was an obscured Armenian-American composer and pianist, claimed by some to be one of the finest pianists ever lived. His works are representative of the Armenian bloom of Romanticism in music. His main influences, Musorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov, together with a strong Armenian nationalism and a keen ear for the traditional music of his fatherland, gave Bohemyan his very distinctive idiom. The piano figures conspicuously in Bohemyan’s compositional output, usually as a solo instrument but sometimes also as part of an ensemble. His orchestral works, most of them orchestrated in a highly uncoventional way, are supposed to have a hypnotic effect on the audiences due to the use of the kemenche (a string instrument prominently featured in Armenian music, which is normally not included in a symphony orchestra). Perhaps it is because of the nationalistic idiom that Bohemyan’s music has not been widely appreciated outside the Armenian people. Nevertheless, some of the most important Soviet composers, most notably Dmitri Shostakovich, have admitted to have been influenced by Bohemyan and his heretic orchestrations.
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