Komitas was born in 1869 to a musical Armenian family in Ottoman Anatolia. Orphaned in childhood, his beautiful voice and skill with Armenian church music led to his being taken in by the church in Echmiadzin, the high seat of the Armenian orthodoxy. At the prestigious seminary in Echmiadazin, Komitas received the best general and musical education that eastern Armenia could offer, and there he began research into Armenia’s national music which would last for decades.
Read More: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/earshot/komitas-the-armenian/6276580
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