Gayane Chebotaryan

{{Short description|Armenian composer and musicologist}}

Gayane Chebotaryan{{cite web|title=Gayane Chebotaryan (C'ebotaryan)|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/gayane-chebotaryan-cebotaryan-mn0001668048|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=12 April 2014}} (8 November 1918, Rostov-on-Don{{ndash}}16 January 1998, Moscow) was an Armenian composer and musicologist. She was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, and graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory.{{cite book |title=A Guide to Piano Music by Women Composers: Women born after 1900|author=Dees, Pamela Youngdahl|year=2004}} She studied composition with {{ill|Christopher Kushnaryan|hy|Քրիստափոր Քուշնարյան}} and piano with Moisei Khalfin. In 1947 she took a teaching position with the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory where she was appointed professor in 1977. She was made an Honored Art Worker of the Armenian SSR in 1965, and published a work on the polyphonic characteristics of Aram Khachaturian in 1969.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&dq=Gayane+C'ebotaryan+norton&pg=PA111|title=The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|year=1994|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |accessdate=12 January 2011|isbn=9780393034875}}

As a composer, she was praised, along with other Armenian composers, by Dmitri Shostakovich for "working hard and successfully on new compositions."{{cite book|url=https://www.google.ca/books/edition/USSR/kBQqAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Gayane+Chebotaryan&pg=PA34&printsec=frontcover|title=USSR.|page=34|issue=88-99|year=1964|publisher=Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the USA|access-date=December 10, 2024}}