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          Alan Hovhaness

          American composer (1911–2000)

          Alan Hovhaness (;[1] March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer.

          He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers.[2] The true tally is well over 500 surviving works, since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works.

          The Boston Globemusic critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures.

          What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism. The atmosphere is hushed, reverential, mystical, nostalgic."[3]

          Name

          After his mother's death (on October 3, 1930), the composer began to use the surname "Hovaness" in honor of his paternal grandfather,&