Hampartsoum Limondjian

Hampartsoum Limondjian
Համբարձում Լիմոնճեան
Background information
Born1768
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died29 June 1839
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
GenresArmenian church music, Armenian classical music, Ottoman classical music, musical notation
Occupation(s)Musical theorist, composer, singer
Instrument(s)singing, violin, tanbur

Hampartsoum Limondjian[a] (Armenian: Համբարձում Լիմոնճեան;[b] 1768 – 29 June 1839) was an Ottoman Armenian composer of Armenian church and classical music, as well as Ottoman classical music, and musical theorist who developed the "Hamparsum" notation system. The system was the main music notation for Western Armenian and Ottoman classical music until the 20th-century introduction of European notation systems, and is still in use by the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Limondjian was referred to as Baba Hamparsum (Father Hampartsoum) in Ottoman imperial court music circles. The name Համբարձում, transliterated as Hampartsoum in Western Armenian or Hambardzum in Eastern Armenian, means "ascension".

  1. ^ Karamahmutoğlu, Gülay. "Hamparsum Limonciyan ve Nota(lama) Sistemi". Müzik ve Bilim. Archived from the original on 2007-01-17. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
  2. ^ Danielson, Virginia; Reynolds, Dwight; Marcus, Scott (2017). The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Middle East. Routledge. p. 1459. ISBN 978-0824060428. Retrieved 17 August 2019.


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