death_date birth_place name background birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
17 february 1951 alexandropol nikoghayos tigranian non_performing_personnel 31 august 1856 classical music tigranian nikogayos.jpg nikoghayos tigranian
 nikoghayos tigrani tigranian composer , pianist
nikoghayos tigranian

nikoghayos tigranian -lrb- 31 august 1856 , gyumri -- 17 february 1951 , yerevan -rrb- was an armenian composer , ethnomusicologist and pianist .
he was granted the titles of people 's artist of armenia -lrb- 1933 -rrb- and hero of labour -lrb- 1936 -rrb- .
in 1921 , nikoghos tigranyan implemented the braille system for the first time in armenia at the gyumri school he founded .
blind from the age of 9 , he studied at the vienna institute for the blind -lrb- 1873 -- 80 -rrb- and saint petersburg conservatory -lrb- with rimsky-korsakov -rrb- .
he collected armenian folk music , particularly mughams , which he used in arrangements -lrb- many for piano -rrb- and original works .
tigranian was the first composer to translate such music into orchestral terms .
the gyumri art school is named after him .
