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Alfred Roubenovich Terterian (by passport), Avet Terterian (in his biography as a composer) was born on July 29, 1929 in Baku, Azerbaijan. His parents were not professional musicians, but both of them had beautiful voices and had some training which allowed his father to perform as an opera singer, and his mother to appear in concert performances.

The father, Rouben Terterian, a graduate of medical department of the Saratov University, was known in Baku as a practicing physician – laringologist.

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Avet’s brother Herman was a renowned opera conductor, and Avet’s son Rouben is a talented musicologist and the author of the book “Avet Terterian”, published in Yerevan in 1989.

In 1948 Avet Terterian entered the Baku College of Music.

He continued his studies in Yerevan at the Romanos Melikian College of Music (entered in 1951). From 1952, he is a student of the Yerevan State Komitas Conservatory, where he studied compositure with Prof. E. Mirzoyan.

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