Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
Died
15 August 1985 (aged 68)
Richard Yardumian (April 5, 1917 – August 15, 1985) was an Armenian-American classical music composer. His personal style drew on Armenian themes and the counterpoint of Bach. Many of his works are organized around a method of twelve-tone composition, unrelated to that of Schoenberg, based on stacks of alternating major and minor thirds, which he invented and called the "chromatic quadratic" method; early works using this method were highly chromatic, while later works are more polymodal. Yardumian was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of ten children to Arm… read more
Richard Yardumian (April 5, 1917 – August 15, 1985) was an Armenian-American classical music composer. His personal style drew on Armenian themes and the counterpoint of Bach. Many of his works are organized around a method of twelve-tone composition, unrelated to that of Schoenberg, based on… read more
Richard Yardumian (April 5, 1917 – August 15, 1985) was an Armenian-American classical music composer. His personal style drew on Armenian themes and the counterpoint of Bach. Many of his works are organized around a method of twelve-tone composition, unrelated to that of Schoenberg, based on stacks of alternating major and minor thirds, which he invented and cal… read more
