Gevorg Geodakyan
{{Short description|Armenian musicologist}}
{{Infobox person
|birth_date = {{birth date|1928|08|12|df=yes}}
|birth_place = Gyumri, Armenia (then Leninakan, Soviet Union)
|death_date = {{death date and age|2015|12|20|1928|08|12|df=yes}}
|occupation = musicologist
|alma_mater = Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory (1952), Moscow Conservatory (1956)
}}
Gevorg Shmavoni Geodakyan{{cite news|title=Serzh Sargsyan congratulated Gevorg Geodakyan on 85th birth anniversary|url=https://armenpress.am/eng/news/728880|access-date=17 August 2014|agency=Armenpress|date=12 August 2013}} ({{langx|hy|Գևորգ Շմավոնի Գյոդակյան}}; {{langx|ru|Гео́ргий Шмаво́нович Геодакя́н|Georgy Shmavonovich Geodakyan}}; 12 August 1928 – 20 December 2015) was an Armenian musicologist.{{cite web|title=Երաժշտության բաժին [Department of Music]|url=http://arts.sci.am/scidepart.php?langid=1|publisher=The Institute of Arts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817021055/http://arts.sci.am/scidepart.php?langid=1|archive-date=17 August 2014|language=hy}} He headed the Music Department of the Institute of Arts of the Armenian Academy of Sciences since 1966.
Born in Leninakan (present-day Gyumri),{{cite web|last=Ter-Simonian|first=Margarita|title=Геодакян Г. Ш. [Geodakyan G. S.]|url=http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enc_music/1974/%D0%93%D0%B5%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%8F%D0%BD|publisher=Music Encyclopedia|access-date=17 August 2014|language=ru}} Geodakyan first graduated from the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory in 1952 and then completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1956.{{cite journal|last=Navoyan|first=M. R.|title=Երաժշտական հայագիտության երախտավորը (Գ. Շ. Գյոդակյանի ծննդյան 75-ամյակի առիթով) [Honoured musicologist-armenologist (to G. Sh.Gyodakian's 75th birth anniversary)]|journal=Lraber Hasarakakan Gitutyunneri|date=2003|issue=2|pages=237–239|url=http://lraber.asj-oa.am/24/|publisher=Armenian Academy of Sciences|location=Yerevan|language=hy|issn=0320-8117}} He died on 20 December 2015 at the age of 87.[http://168.am/2015/12/22/578012.html Կյանքից հեռացել է ՀՀ արվեստի վաստակավոր գործիչ Գեորգի Գյոդակյանը] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223042550/http://168.am/2015/12/22/578012.html |date=2015-12-23 }}