Yeghia Dndesian
{{Short description|Armenian musician and musical reformer}}
Yeghia Dndesian (born Istanbul, Ottoman Turkey 1834 - died Constantinople, Ottoman Turkey 1881) was an Armenian musician and musical reformer.{{cite book|last=Ray Ma|first=Jonathan|title=Music, Ritual, and Diasporic Identity of the Armenian Apostolic Church|year=2004|publisher=University of Maryland: School of Music|location=Maryland|url=http://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/1903/1379/1/umi-umd-1381.pdf|page=228}}
Work
Yeghia Dndesian was among the cultivators of the Sharagan musical style and notation used throughout Armenian churches and religious services. He was instrumental in resurfacing much of the lost information of ancient Armenian music. In April 1873, a committee consisting of priests, clergymen, and scribes arrived in Constantinople to gather, revise, or recompose Sharagan melodies in order to preserve them for notation.{{cite book|last=Ormanian|first=Maghiak|title=The Church of Armenia: Her History, Doctrine, Discipline, Liturgy, Literature, and Existing Condition.|year=1955|publisher=A.R. Mowbray and Co. Limited|location=London|pages=71–75|editor=G. Marcar Gregory}} Dndesian was chosen as a member of the committee along with Nigoghos Tashjian, and Aristakes Hovannesian (1812-1878). After putting much work, Dndesian eventually published a five volume book in 1871 entitled Sharagan Tzainakryal or Sharagan Notations.
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Category:Musicians from Istanbul
Category:Armenians from the Ottoman Empire
Category:19th-century composers from the Ottoman Empire
Category:19th-century classical composers