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Also Known As Soghomon Soghomonian • Gomidas • Solomon Solomonian
Born October 8, 1869 • Kütahya • Ottoman Empire
Died October 22, 1935 (aged 66) • Paris • France
Subjects Of Study folk music • Armenia

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Zoltán Kodály, 1960.
Zoltán Kodály
Hungarian composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
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Abraham Zevi Idelsohn
Russian composer
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Soviet Armenian composer
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Mary Travers
American singer and songwriter
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Jeff Buckley
American musician
The Shakespeare of his generation
Bob Dylan
American singer-songwriter
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie
American singer-songwriter
Bruce Cockburn
Bruce Cockburn
Canadian musician
Noah Kahan smiles in a black tuxedo and bow tie, with decorative pins on his lapel.
Noah Kahan
American singer-songwriter
Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie
American singer and songwriter
Sixto Rodriguez wearing a dark suit, sunglasses, and a black hat performs on stage in blue lighting, playing an acoustic guitar and singing into a microphone.
Sixto Rodriguez
American singer-songwriter
Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger
American singer
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
British singer, songwriter, and musician
Hudie Ledbetter, known as Leadbelly, sits in a suit playing a 12-string guitar at Bank Street School in New York City, surrounded by children listening.
Lead Belly
American musician
Joan Baez
Joan Baez
American singer and activist
Mily Balakirev, portrait by Léon Bakst, c. 1900–10.
Mily Balakirev
Russian composer
Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957, wearing a dark suit and bow tie, with a serious expression and a brick wall in the background.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
English composer
Henry Dixon Cowell.
Henry Cowell
American composer
Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams
American singer and songwriter