Speech On Barsegh Kanachyan's Death, Butanian Category Of "Krunk" Song, "Avetis's Teaching"

Mihran Toumajian was born in the village Kyurin of Western Armenia. Studied at Constantinople, in 1913 finished the University of Constantinople. He sang in the choir “Gusan” of Komitas from 1910 to 1915 and was one of the 5 students of Komitas. Between 1920 to 1922 he studied in Paris. In 1923 Mihran Toumajian left for the USA and founded “Hay yerg” choir company where they sang songs by Komitas and Barsegh Kanachyan. In parallel, he collected and recorded Armenian folk music from survived Armenians who had resettled from different regions of Western Armenia to the United States. He composed “Hayreni yerg u ban” collection but in the US he was unable to publish his valuable collection. In 1965 Mihran Toumajian returned to homeland (Armenian SSR). He started working at National Academy of Sciences of Armenia and was able to publish his collections. Died in Yerevan.